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I'm a big fan of meat.
Preet Bharara / Attorney
Bigs
Fans
Meat
Big Fan
Fan
Big Fan Fan Big
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I don't eat green things, no vegetables.
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Green
Green Things
Vegetables
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I don't like coffee but I need caffeine.
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Caffeine
Coffee
Needs
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I have come to really love the sound of nervous laughter.
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Laughter
Nervous
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I eat almost no lunch. I have a big dinner but I don't have a big lunch.
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Bigs
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Lunch
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I just want to apologize in advance that I don’t have enough subpoenas for all of you.
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Apologizing
Enough
Want
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Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.
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Crime
Fraud
Insider Trading
Particular
Should
Trading
Crimes
Generally
Insider
Securities
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As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.
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Attorney
Cyber
Gathering
Manhattan
United States
Worry
Few Things
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Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks.
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Assured
Cyber
Cyber Attacks
Enforcement
Law
Law Enforcement
Sensitivity
Attacks
Businesses
Operate
Utmost
Victims
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Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise.
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Attorney
Illegal
Insider Trading
May
Trading
Vantage Point
Rise
Unfortunately
Insider
Rampant
Vantage
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I don't get paid to serve the president. I get paid to serve the public and what I think is in the interest of justice, no matter who the president is.
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Justice
President
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In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.
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Black
Enterprise
Financial
Information
Offensive
Steroid
Unfair
Unlawful
Puts
Respects
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I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing.
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Believe
Criminals
Wake Up
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History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.
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Leadership
Challenges
Corporate
Integrity
Paramount
Responsibility
Ensure
Legislate
Responsibilities
Shown
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We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.
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Country
Educated
Engaging
Foolhardy
Illegal
Liberty
Risk
Successful
Flagrant
Mention
Professionals
Witnessed
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The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels.
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Aggressive
Drug Cartels
Powerful
Rings
Tools
White
White Collar
Investigative
Mob
Successfully
Targeting
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I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.
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New York
Attorney
Southern
Surprise
Trading
Years
Apparent
District
Observed
Insider
Publicly
Rampant
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From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.
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Government
Technology
Agency
Consulting
Fbi
Government Agencies
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical Companies
Stock Exchange
Agencies
Commission
Exchange
Funds
Hedge
Securities
Stock
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I would like to think that the level of aggressiveness in law enforcement will remain the same, when you're talking about things like keeping the markets fair and government honest. I don't foresee any departure from that, unless I'm missing something big.
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Honest
Missing
Thinking
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Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.
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Communication
Elements
Engaged
Nice
Officials
Rocket Science
Significant
Tape
Casually
Insider
Publicly
Rocket
Traded
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The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat.
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Bells
Existential
Frequency
Invoke
Menace
Next
Officials
Pearls
Threat
Alarm
Facing
Grave
Harbor
Increasing
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Regularly
Threats
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Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.
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Access
Boards
Directors
Dollars
People
Rigged
Trading
Wrong Time
Time Best People
Billion
Billion Dollars
Buck
Best Time People
Insider
Precisely
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That's an incredibly serious thing if people think that the president of the United States can tell heads of law enforcement agencies, based on his own whim or his own personal preferences or friendships, that they should or should not pursue particular criminal cases against individuals. That's not how America works.
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People
President
Thinking
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I do my job. I love my job. It's the best job I ever had. And it's probably the best job I will ever have. And I serve at the pleasure of the president. That's true of President Obama. That will be true of President Trump. And if and when a president decides that they want to replace me, I'll ride off into the sunset.
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Pleasure
President
Sunset
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