Forum Post: Potential Public Leader of OWS? US Attorney Preet Bharara
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 13, 2011, 1:49 p.m. EST by jbell78
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He started in the position in August, 2009, and his short tenure has been crowded with aggressive prosecutions of terrorism, Medicare fraud, illegal tax shelters, and public corruption. But the arrest of Rajaratnam, on October 16, 2009, gave Bharara his highest-profile case.
From the start, Bharara made it clear that he would go after Wall Street crime. “Greed, sometimes, is not good,” he said in announcing the arrests. A month after Rajaratnam’s arrest, Bharara gave an unusually dark speech at N.Y.U.’s law school, speaking of “epic frauds surfacing with increasing frequency.”
He noted, “There is a lack of faith in the economic system; a lack of belief in the markets; and a lack of trust that the playing field is level.” He made no apologies for ferreting out insider trading by using wiretaps, a practice that was unpopular on Wall Street. “When sophisticated business people begin to adopt the methods of common criminals, we have no choice but to treat them as such,” he said.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/06/27/110627fa_fact_packer#ixzz1agXsqrJj
Sounds like our kind of guy and someone who may have some real political clout!
Exactly, which is why what we most immediately need is a comprehensive strategy, and related candidate (such as yours), that implements all our demands at the same time, and although I'm all in favor of taking down today's ineffective and inefficient Top 10% Management System of Business & Government, there's only one way to do it – by fighting bankers as bankers ourselves at $500 apiece. Consequently, I have posted a 1-page Summary of the Strategic Legal Policies, Organizational Operating Structures, and Tactical Investment Procedures necessary to do this at:
http://getsatisfaction.com/americanselect/topics/on_strategic_legal_policy_organizational_operational_structures_tactical_investment_procedures
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