Obama-Appointed US Attorney Refuses to Resign, Demands Trump Fire Him

On Friday afternoon Attorney General Jeff Sessions requested the resignations of 46 Obama-appointed US attorneys.

Apparently, all but one attorney cooperated with the request.

The attorney who hails from the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, is refusing to tender his resignation and is demanding that President Trump fire him.

From Zero Hedge

[…] Aaccording to various press reports from both the NYT and CNN, Bharara is refusing the Trump administration’s demand to resign, and as CNN reporter Jeff Zelezny adds, Bharara “will make Donald Trump fire him.”

HOLDOVER: Bharara is not submitting his resignation, according to several ppl briefed – WH not responding to what they'll do next.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 11, 2017

Additionally, according to a report in the Daily Beast, Bharara told his section chiefs that he’d yet to submit the requested letter and may instead challenge Sessions to fire him. Bharara’s office is working through an investigation of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and about to start the trials of two close allies to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Should Trump fire Bharara, he may be seen a further siding with Wall Street – which has been the source of most of his close economic advisors – against one of the few attorneys who pressed charges against banks in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Ironically, some have accused Bharara of not being strict enough on the institutions found to have been criminally liable with virtually no bankers ending up in jail, and instead it was mostly shareholders being punished with banks forced to pay nearly a quarter trillion in legal fees and settlements over the past decade for violations from RMBS selling, to LIBOR, to FX and gold market rigging.

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