Fired U. S. Attorney Preet Bharara to Join N. Y.U.’s Law School -
By BENJAMIN WEISERMARCH 21, 2017
Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney in Manhattan who was fired this month by the Trump administration, will join
the New York University School of Law on April 1 as a distinguished scholar in residence, the school said on Tuesday.
Mr. Bharara, a graduate of Harvard and Columbia Law School, served more than seven years as the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York,
and was perhaps best known for his successful corruption prosecutions, including those of Sheldon Silver, the former Democratic speaker of the State Assembly, and Dean G. Skelos, the former Republican state senate majority leader.
The law school’s dean, Trevor W. Morrison, said students
and faculty members would benefit from Mr. Bharara’s “deep knowledge and experience in criminal justice.”
Mr. Bharara’s position is considered full time, although it would not preclude
his taking on other engagements, a school spokesman, Michael Orey, said.
Similar positions at the law school are held by other former senior government officials, like Lisa O. Monaco, who was President Barack Obama’s homeland security
and counterterrorism adviser, and Anne Milgram, a former New Jersey attorney general.