Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Preet Bharara Skewers Bill de Blasio and Praises the Press at Political Gala

 


It seems that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s recent slapping of federal charges on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s closest associates in an alleged bid-rigging scheme has emboldened him to take jabs at just about everyone—right up to Mayor Bill de Blasio and his infamous affinity for traveling all the way to his old neighborhood of Park Slope to exercise at the YMCA during working hours.

Bharara was honored as “Newsmaker of the Decade” by City & State and served as keynote speaker at its 10th anniversary gala tonight at Vermilion Restaurant in Midtown Manhattan. And he certainly took advantage of his reputation for being tough on corruption—as soon as he started his speech, he told the audience, “I’ll rescue you” and then said that those who clapped “will be arrested last.”  

“It is sometimes nice to be able to put actual faces to the names in all those wiretap applications and you’re all much better looking than you look in those wiretap applications,” he said. 

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Source: Observer Politics

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