Preet Bharara

"You can have a perfect constitution, perfect compliance but if people who run things don't themselves have integrity then you don't get justice." Preet Bharara Former Federal Prosecutor

As US attorney for Southern District of New York, he was the most powerful federal prosecutor

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He was fired by Trump as US Attorney for Southern District of New York after he refused to quit

Preet Bharara spoke about the shooting in Kansas of 32-year-old Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla

Preet Bharara was fired by the Trump administration last month

Bharara was one of 46 US attorneys asked to resign after Trump took office

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Appointed in 2009 by Barack Obama, Bharara quickly went after New York's rancid political culture

Sean Spicer said President Trump had wanted to call Bharara to thank him for his service

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Bharara's firing had come as a shock since Trump had asked him, shortly after winning, to stay on

Trump administration ordered 46 Barack Obama-appointed attorneys to resign

His exit would disrupt prominent fraud and corruption investigations

Born in a Sikh family in Ferozepur, Punjab, in 1968, Bharara grew up in New Jersey after his parents moved to the US