--- title: Preet Bharara Fired After Refusing Sessions' Order to Resign description: Preet Bharara announced that he was fired from his role as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York on Saturday canonical: https://time.com/4699086/us-attorney-preet-bharara-fired/ author: Aric Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-11T20:49:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:47:56.237Z article:section: Politics og:title: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Says He Was Fired By Justice Department After Refusing to Resign og:description: President Trump asked Bharara to stay in his role in November. 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Drew Angerer—Getty Images by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Mar 11, 2017 8:49 PM UTC Preet Bharara, the high-profile Manhattan federal prosecutor, said he was fired from his role as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York on Saturday. The move comes, Bharara said via a tweet on Saturday, after he refused to submit a letter of resignation following Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ [order to all 46 U.S. Attorney holdovers from Barack Obama’s administration to step down. ](http://time.com/4698752/jeff-session-us-attorneys-obama/) “I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired. Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life,” Bharara tweeted. > [](https://twitter.com/PreetBharara/status/840645773985492992) In November, Bharara met with [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4696428/donald-trump-war-state-government/) following his election. Trump, who was then President-elect, asked Bharara to remain in his role as U.S. Attorney, Bharara told reporters at the time. “The President-elect asked, presumably because he’s a New Yorker and is aware of the great work that our office has done over the past seven years … whether or not I’d be prepared to stay on” and “I agreed,” Bharara said in November, [according to the New York _Daily News_](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-meet-manhattan-attorney-preet-bharara-source-article-1.2892952). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4699086/us-attorney-preet-bharara-fired/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4699086/us-attorney-preet-bharara-fired/"},"headline":"U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Says He Was Fired By Justice Department After Refusing to Resign","datePublished":"2017-03-11T20:49:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:47:56.237Z","description":"\"Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life\"","url":"https://time.com/4699086/us-attorney-preet-bharara-fired/","keywords":["Law","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8edfd3759356367/6988be084dd215e44aefe18e/preet-bharara.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Aric Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8edfd3759356367/6988be084dd215e44aefe18e/preet-bharara.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President-Elect Trump Holds Meetings At Trump Tower In New York","caption":"Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks briefly to reporters at Trump Tower, on Nov. 30, 2016 in New York City.","creditText":"Drew Angerer—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/law/","name":"Law"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4699086/us-attorney-preet-bharara-fired/","name":"U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Says He Was Fired By Justice Department After Refusing to Resign"}}]}] ```