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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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