Preet Bharara on a prosecutor's 'descent to hell,' and, unrelated, how ...
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. Newman, who is innocent, tries to fight back, in his steely Newmanesque way, against the paper and the government, as the report progressively ruins his life. Later, before Wilford Brimley comes in to set things straight, there are some questionable journalistic ethics, a suicide, and a handful of illegal wiretaps.
Bharara, who occassionally slips a movie reference into his press conferences , was at Fordham Law as a guest of the Forum on Law, Culture and Society 's Film Festival . As you might expect, he didn't much approve of the prosecutors' conduct in the movie.
"What people don't realize is, it's really hard to get a wiretap on someone's phone," said Bharara in a panel discussion after the film.
Bharara's office recently concluded a high-profile prosecution of Galleon Group hedge-fund founder Raj Rajaratnam that was intended, in part, to send a signal that the Southern District would be employing its full investigative arsenal, including wiretaps, against the bad actors in the financial industry. (The extensive recording of phone calls led a judge in a separate but related case to admonish the office for " unnecessary, and apparently voyeuristic, intrusion " into one defendant's private life.)
Source: Capital New York