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THIRD ANNUAL IAAC LITERARY FESTIVAL |
| Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor, NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, NYC |
| OCTOBER 7-9, 2016 |
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Closing Night Sunday Oct 9, 2016. 6:30pm - 8 :30pm
Tickets: $50, $45 IAAC members/NYU Faculty. $25 Students w/ID  |
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Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor, NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, NYC
Politics and Corruption
Preet Bharara in conversation with Seema Mody
Is Corruption endemic to politics? With Politics front and center in both India and the United States, US Attorney Preet Bharara discusses corruption in various avenues with CNBC Correspondant Seema Mody. |
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Preet Bharara
United States Attorney, Southern District of New York |
 On May 15, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Preet Bharara
to become the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Mr. Bharara’s nomination was unanimously confirmed by the U.S.
Senate on August 7, 2009, and he was sworn in on August 13, 2009. As U.S. Attorney, Mr. Bharara oversees the investigation and
litigation of all criminal and civil cases brought on behalf of the
United States in the Southern District of New York, which
encompasses New York, Bronx, Westchester, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and
Sullivan counties. He supervises an office of more than 200 Assistant U.S. Attorneys, who
handle a high volume of cases that involve domestic and international terrorism, narcotics and
arms trafficking, financial and healthcare fraud, cybercrime, public corruption, gang violence,
organized crime, and civil rights violations.
Under Mr. Bharara’s leadership, the office has experienced one of the most productive periods in
its history. Early in his tenure, he formed the Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit, which
has continued the office’s long history of prosecuting leaders and associates of global and
domestic terrorist, narco-terrorist, narcotics, and money - laundering organizations. Its
convictions have included major terrorists such as Usama bin Laden’s son-in-law Sulaiman Abu
Ghayth, London imam Abu Hamza, and Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad, and
international criminals such as arms trafficker Viktor Bout and Somali pirate Abduwali Muse.
Since Mr. Bharara’s appointment, the office has continued the tradition of being at the forefront
of prosecuting financial misconduct, including securities fraud. The office has secured
convictions of numerous insider trading defendants, including Galleon hedge fund founder Raj
Rajaratnam, McKinsey managing director and Goldman Sachs board member Rajat Gupta, and
hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors. The Civil Frauds Unit has brought a number of significant
civil actions alleging financial and healthcare fraud and collected hundreds of millions of dollars
in settlements, including from Deutsche Bank, CitiMortgage, and Bank of America for fraud
relating to faulty lending practices. His office has held to account several of the world’s largest
corporations for their misconduct, including JP Morgan Chase for its relationship with Madoff
Securities; Toyota for lying to consumers about safety-related issues; BNP Paribas for violating
U.S. sanctions against Sudan, Iran, and Cuba; and Anadarko for causing environmental damage
at various sites around the country. The Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit has also charged
some of the most cutting edge financial fraud cases, in addition to sophisticated tax fraud, bank
fraud, and cybercrime cases, including the LIRR pension fraud, Swiss Bank Wegelin & Co.,
core members of the hacking groups LulzSec and Anonymous and drug trafficking website Silk
Road, and digital currency provider Liberty Reserve.
Notable public corruption defendants include New York State Senators Carl Kruger, Vincent Leibell, and Hiram Monseratte; New York State Assemblymen Eric Stevenson and Nelson Castro and Assemblywoman Gabriela Rosa; and New York City Councilmen Larry Seabrook and Daniel Halloran. Furthermore, the office has continued its traditional civil rights work by, for example, conducting a multi-year investigation into the treatment of adolescent males at Rikers Island and filing Americans with Disabilities Act cases against leading New York City institutions like Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, while simultaneously bringing new and innovative cases under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act. The office has also prosecuted more than 1,000 violent members and associates of various gangs, including the Bloods, Latin Kings, and Trinitarios, in an effort to make communities in the Southern District safer for their residents.
In 2012, Mr. Bharara was featured on the cover of TIME magazine and appeared on its list of the “100 Most Influential People in the World.” He was also included in Bloomberg Markets Magazine’s “50 Most Influential” lists, Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment” lists, and Worth magazine’s “The Power 100: The 100 Most Powerful People in Finance” lists in 2012, 2013, and 2014; in City & State’s “Power 100-New York City” and “Power 100-Albany” lists in 2013 and 2014; and in New York Observer’s “The City State: Albany’s Top 40” list in 2014.
Mr. Bharara has delivered the keynote address at the commencements of Fordham Law School, Columbia Law School, and Cardozo School of Law, and, in 2014, spoke at Harvard Law School’s Class Day ceremony. In 2015, he spoke at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, Pace University School of Law, and New York University School of Law.
Prior to becoming the U.S. Attorney, Mr. Bharara served as Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts. During his tenure, he helped to lead the Senate Judiciary Committee investigation of the firing of United States Attorneys.
From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Bharara served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted a wide range of cases involving organized crime, racketeering, securities fraud, money laundering, narcotics trafficking, and other crimes.
Mr. Bharara was a litigation associate in New York at Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman from
1996 to 2000 and at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher from 1993 to 1996. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with an A.B. in Government in 1990, and from Columbia Law School with a J.D. in 1993, where he was a member of the Columbia Law Review. |
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| Seema Mody |
 Seema Mody is a global markets reporter for CNBC, located at the network's Global Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Most recently, Mody was co-anchor for "Worldwide Exchange" based in London. She joined CNBC in July 2011 as a reporter focusing on stories that impact Wall Street as well as tracking the tech and IPO market from the NASDAQ. Previously, Mody was an anchor and reporter at CNBC-TV18 in Mumbai, India where she covered India's economic boom. She co-anchored two programs for the station, "Power Breakfast" and "After the Bell," as well as co-produced and anchored special features on "Mumbai Fashion Week" and "Tech Toyz." While at CNBC-TV18, Mody also reported on private equity deals and M&A activity across India exclusively interviewing global private equity heads, including Warburg Pincus CEO Chip Kaye. |
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