Bharara, Wall Street’s Cop, Among Prosecutors Asked to Quit
- Manhattan U.S. attorney had said he reached agreement to stay
- Exit would disrupt prominent fraud, corruption investigations
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's Wall Street Legacy
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Wall Street enforcer Preet Bharara may be forced out as the U.S. attorney in Manhattan despite assurances he said he’d received from the incoming Trump administration that he would remain in the job.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday abruptly asked for the resignations of 46 U.S. attorneys: all those remaining who were appointed by President Barack Obama. Although most of the holdovers were expected to leave at some point, Bharara said shortly after meeting with Sessions and President-elect Donald Trump in November that he was asked to stay on in the new administration and had agreed to do so.