Trump asked Bharara to stay on.If Bharara had agreed to be Trumps puppet he would still have his job,so would Comey. http://nypost.com/2016/11/30/bharara-accepts-trumps-offer-to-stay-on-as-us-attorney/ Bharara accepts Trump’s offer to ‘stay on’ as US attorney By Jamie Schram, Kaja Whitehouse and Carl Campanile November 30, 2016 | 2:15pm There’s going to be the same old “sheriff” in this town. Preet Bharara, the gungho Manhattan federal prosecutor, has agreed to “stay on” as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District after President-elect Donald Trump offered him the gig during a meeting Wednesday afternoon at Trump Tower in Midtown. “We had a good meeting. I agreed to stay on. I have already spoken to Sen. [Jeff] Sessions, who is as you know is the nominee to be the attorney general. He also asked that I stay on, and so I expect that I will be continuing to work at the southern district,” Bharara said in the lobby of Trump’s Fifth Avenue skyscraper following their 40-minute powwow. Bharara, who earned the moniker “The Sheriff of Wall Street” for his aggressive prosecution of bankers, also heaped praise on his own office. “The president-elect asked, presumably because he’s a New Yorker and is aware of the great work that our office has done over the past seven years,” Bharara said. The meeting came on the one-year anniversary of Bharara’s winning a corruption conviction against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, indicating that Bharara was trying to highlight his successes to keep his job. “One year ago today, Sheldon Silver got justice, and at long last, so did the people of New York,” Bharara tweeted on Wednesday just prior to his face-to-face- with Trump. He also contacted outgoing U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to inform her of the meeting, a source said. Silver, 72, is currently out on bail while he appeals his 12-year prison sentence for abusing his lofty position in the State Senate to swindle millions in kickbacks and bribes. Silver aside, Bharara has won convictions against some of New York’s most notorious white collar villains, corrupt politicians and international terrorists, including ex-NY Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and al Qaeda terrorist Khalid Al-Fawwaz. During a Nov. 17 press conference, Bharara hinted that he didn’t want to leave his post. “Have you put any thought into whether you would stay on in the Trump administration?” a reporter asked him. “I have said and I’ll say again, I love my job, I enjoy doing my job, I think we’re still doing great work here in the office. I serve at the pleasure of the president like every U.S. attorney does, and if and when our president decides to replace me, I’ll ride off into the sunset,” Bharara replied. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was one of the first to toot Bharara’s horn to Trump — and even put the president-elect directly in touch with the prosecutor to set up the meeting, a source said. “President-elect Trump called me last week and asked me what I thought about Preet Bharara continuing his role as U.S. Attorney. I told him I thought Preet was great, and I would be all for keeping him on the job and fully support it,” Schumer said. “I am glad they met and am glad Preet is staying on. He’s been one of the best U.S Attorneys New York has ever seen,” the new Senate minority leader said. Republicans — fully aware of ongoing investigations focusing on Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio’s administrations — were thrilled that Trump was retaining Bharara. “That’s good news. Bharara has done a lot of good,” said Staten Island GOP chairman John Antoniello. “Bharara has unfinished business. He should bring these investigations to their fruition,” upstate Assemblyman Steve McLaughin (R) tweeted mischievously, “How’s your day going Governor? Bharara sees himself as a non-partisan law enforcement official, which likely appeals to Trump’s anti-establishment sensibility, people who know the prosecutor said. “He’s been an outsider and not behold to the Democratic Party or the Republican Party,” an attorney who worked under Bharara said. “He’s just an independent law enforcement agent.” Others who were being considered for the plumb position, included Rudy Giuliani’s ally Marc Mukasey, but he hadn’t met with Trump, a source said. Mukasey served eight years as a prosecutor for the Southern District of New York. He was also an attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission.
and yet a few months later, just as sessions took over and it was firing time, this high profile guy who servers at the pleasure of the President did not have the courage or courtesy to call back and talk to the President of the United States of America.
This isn't North Korea, there is a protocol to doing all this - especially when there is a conflict of interest involved. But clearly, corruption doesn't matter to you guys unless 'Clinton' name is involved, if it's on your team then it's OK. Too bad, Bharara is now on Mueller's team and independently investigating Trump's corruption
why don't you tell us the protocol that says the president could not fire the guy at will. why don't you go back and look at the history of presidents firing US attorney.
Sessions also asked Bharara to stay on.Bharara appropriately called Sessions about communicating with Trump.Bharara is friends with Comey,who said he didn't want to be alone with Trump so its understandable that Bharara didn't want to either
Yes, let's bring up Nixon and him getting attorney's fired while they are investigating crimes related to them, totally makes your point.
are these guys pussies afraid Trump is going to grab them (pardon the pun) or Attorneys who went after Mafia and done tough things in the past. Not for one second do I think the, the faggot excuse real. that is just such garbage. comey pretty much said he was being a faggot. I don't buy it at all. Just be a man or a strong woman and say what you have to say to the President - if you think he is improperly pressuring you. If you get fired at least you were an honest man or woman with backbone. Its not like Trump is a clintonista and going to give you the vince foster treatment. And by the way I don't condone corruption, I despise it. All the leakers should be prosecuted and if trump is guilty then he should be punished too.
Bharara said he viewed direct contact from the president to himself, as a law-enforcement official, to be an inappropriate breach of protocol and reported it to the office of Attorney General Jeff Sessions on March 9. “The number of times that President [Barack] Obama called me in seven-and-a-half years was zero. The number of times I would’ve been expected to be called by the president of the United States would be zero, because there has to be some kind of arms-length relationship, given the jurisdiction various people have,” Bharara said.