Bharara Once Jailed Wall Street Pros. Now He Helps Them Avoid Prison
In an exclusive Bloomberg Television interview, the former US Attorney talks about the importance of corporate culture and his advice to Harvard Business School students. He also weighs in on Donald Trump.
Preet Bharara knows about the worst consequences of bad decisions: disgrace, career ruin and prison. From 2009 through 2017, he was the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, perhaps Wall Street’s fiercest cop. And he knows politics. Bharara is now a partner with New York’s WilmerHale, putting him on the defense side. In an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Sonali Basak in late January, he had some advice for financial pros and thoughts about former and perhaps future president Donald Trump, who fired him as US attorney after he declined to quit. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
SONALI BASAK: Can mistakes slip into criminal behavior?