Indian-American Preet Bharara: World's sheriff or ambitious manipulator?

Washington, April 1, 2015: The enviable record of Wall Street's Indian-American prosecutor Preet Bhrara, known in India for his dogged prosecution of an Indian diplomat, has put him in the limelight, but some have also questioned his methods. Time magazine put him on the cover and Vanity Fair described him as "Wall Street's most fearsome foe". recalled the Washington Post while calling him as "The brash New York prosecutor who's indicting left and right." Calling Bharara, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, as "the most powerful prosecutor in the country", the influential US daily said his "aggressive prosecutions are earning him a reputation as a fiercely effective and limelight-loving figure." "No target is apparently too big for him," said the Post noting he is currently investigating the National Football League over painkiller abuses and New York's Democratic Governor Andrew M. Cuomo over the closure of an ethics commission. Bharara's team of elite prosecutors, many of whom left seven-figure careers in white-shoe firms to work with him, have pursued investigations in over 40 countries, it said. A naturalised citizen, Bharara was born in Firozpur, India, in 1968 and came to the US as a 2-year-old with his parents. But that "did not prevent him from arresting and charging India's deputy consul general, Devyani Khobragade, for mistreatment of a domestic worker last year," the Post said. "Everyone should understand that our motivation is always to do the right thing, and we