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Trump tried to call New York prosecutor before firing him - source

By REUTERS

MARCH 12, 2017 21:57

Two days before US Attorney Preet Bharara was fired, the high-profile New York prosecutor declined to take a call from President Donald Trump, a US law enforcement official said on Sunday.

Bharara contacted Justice Department headquarters for authorization to speak to the president on Thursday, according to detailed account from the law enforcement source. When he apparently did not receive it, he called back the woman who had contacted him to say he did not want to talk to Trump without the approval of his superiors.

As the chief federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan, Bharara oversaw several notable corruption and white-collar criminal cases and prosecutions of terrorism suspects. He was one of 46 Obama administration holdovers who were asked to resign by the Justice Department on Friday.

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