{"id":67835,"date":"2017-03-12T09:38:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T04:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=67835"},"modified":"2017-03-12T09:39:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T04:09:43","slug":"indian-lawyer-fired-for-not-resigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/indian-lawyer-fired-for-not-resigning\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Lawyer fired for not resigning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Preet Bharara, one of the most high-profile federal prosecutors in the country, said he was fired after refusing to submit a letter of resignation as part of an ouster of the remaining U.S. attorneys who were holdovers from the Obama administration, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bharara&#8217;s dismissal was an about-face from President Donald Trump&#8217;s assurances to the Manhattan-based prosecutor in November, weeks after the election, that he wanted him to stay on the job following a meeting at Trump Tower, according to Bharara.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67836\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-ap.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Lawyer fired for not resigning\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two people close to Trump said the president&#8217;s chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions wanted a clean slate of federal prosecutors and were unconcerned about any perception that the White House changed its mind about Bharara. The removal of former president Barack Obama&#8217;s federal prosecutors is about asserting who&#8217;s in power, the two said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The departure of Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, capped a confusing sequence of events, beginning Friday, when acting deputy attorney general Dana Boente began making calls to 46 prosecutors asking for their resignations by the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Requests for resignation are a normal part of a transition of power from one administration to another, although both the Bush and Obama administrations let their U.S. attorneys leave gradually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preet Bharara, one of the most high-profile federal prosecutors in the country, said he was fired after refusing to submit a letter of resignation as part of an ouster of the remaining U.S. attorneys who were holdovers from the Obama administration, according to people familiar with the matter. Bharara&#8217;s dismissal was an about-face from President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2],"tags":[35611,35614,15256,35613,1843,241,35609,478,11864,35607,507,35612,35610,14476,35608,9724],"class_list":["post-67835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-attorney-general","tag-bush","tag-chief-strategist","tag-dana-boente-began","tag-donald-trump","tag-friday","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-obama","tag-preet-bharara","tag-president","tag-southern-district","tag-stephen-bannon","tag-trump-tower","tag-u-s","tag-white-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GTY_preet_bharara_jt_160612_12x5_1600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}