Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks at the 118th CityLaw Breakfast. Image credit: CityLand
On Friday, January 23, 2015, the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School hosted a City Law Breakfast featuring Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, as the guest speaker. The special sponsors for this CityLaw Breakfast were Guidepost Solutions, LLC and Kostelanetz & Fink LLP.
Ross Sandler
The stunning 79-page federal complaint and arrest of Joseph Percoco and seven others by United States Attorney Preet Bharara focused on bribery and extortion, but the complaint also revealed a callous disregard of State conflicts of interest and procurement rules. These allegations were as serious as the federal criminal charges. (more…)
Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks at the 118th CityLaw Breakfast. Image credit: CityLand
On Monday, November 30, 2015, former Speaker of the New York State Assembly Sheldon Silver was convicted on seven charges of corruption in Federal court. Two days after announcing the charges this past January, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara spoke at the Center for New York City Law’s CityLaw Breakfast. The video of the speech is available in full after the jump.
The Center for New York City Law cordially invites you to the 118th City Law Breakfast
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Preet Bharara
United States Attorney, Southern District of New York
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Recently the City got some good news about Rikers Island, a change from the bad news of recent years. On August 2, 2016, Mayor Bill de Blasio, together with Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte, announced that for the first six months of 2016 the frequencies with which staff used serious force on inmates and inmates seriously assaulted staff dropped by nearly half over the past year. Overall uses of force and assault numbers were also down over 2015, but not by as much. The mayor trumpeted the improvement although the frequency of the use of force and assaults in 2016 remained far higher than had been experienced from 2011 to 2014. Still, the improvement in 2016 over 2015, the most violent year, was a welcome step in the right direction.
