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Preet Bharara is one of the richest Lawyer from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Preet Bharara's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
In 1990, he graduated from Harvard College magna cum felicite. He then graduated from Columbia Law School with his JD.
India Abroad named him the Person of the Year for 2011. After being dismissed as an American Attorney by the then-new-president He was named by India Abroad as the 2011 Person of the Year. In April 2017, He joined New York University’s School of Law as a distinguished scholar in residence following his dismissal as a US Attorney by then new-president Donald Trump., he joined New York University’s School of Law in April 2017.
Bharara was born in 1968 in Firozpur, Punjab, India, to a Sikh father and Hindu mother. His parents immigrated to the United States in 1970 and Bharara became a U.S. citizen aged 12. He grew up in Eatontown in suburban Monmouth County, New Jersey and attended Ranney School in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, where he graduated as valedictorian in 1986. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1990 and a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in 1993 where he was a member of the Columbia Law Review.
Some of the high-profile terrorist figures convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment during Bharara’s term include Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law; Khalid al-Fawwaz and Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Osama bin Laden aides who plotted the 1998 United States embassy bombings that killed 224 people; Mostafa Kamel Mostafa, a cleric who masterminded the 1998 kidnappings of 16 American, British and Australian tourists in Yemen; and Faisal Shahzad, the attempted Times Square bomber. Bharara also won a conviction and 25-year sentence for international arms smuggler Viktor Bout.
From 2009 to 2014, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York has convicted more than 1,000 of approximately 1,300 people charged in 52 large-scale takedowns of street drug and drug trafficking organizations. On lowering violent crime rates, Bharara has said, “You can measure the number of people arrested and the number of shootings, but success is when you lift the sense of intimidation and fear.” Bharara also oversaw the largest criminal sweep of gangs in Newburgh, New York, working with the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local law enforcement agencies to bring charges against members of the Newburgh Bloods and Newburgh Latin Kings gangs, among others. In 2010, Bharara oversaw the prosecution of eight longshoremen on charges of participation in a multimillion-dollar cocaine trafficking enterprise along the Waterfront, operated by a Panamanian drug organization.
