The Most Dangerous Man In American Politics

PREET BRINGS THE HEAT
Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, left, looks on as Leslie Caldwell, assistant attorney general for the criminal division, speaks during a news conference on BNP Paribas SA at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, June 30, 2014. BNP Paribas SA, France's largest bank, pleaded guilty and agreed to pay a record $8.9 billion for violating U.S. sanctions in a case that has spanned several years and reached the highest echelons of French and American diplomacy. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, left, looks on as Leslie Caldwell, assistant attorney general for the criminal division, speaks during a news conference on BNP Paribas SA at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, June 30, 2014. BNP Paribas SA, France's largest bank, pleaded guilty and agreed to pay a record $8.9 billion for violating U.S. sanctions in a case that has spanned several years and reached the highest echelons of French and American diplomacy. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

His frontal assault on the open secrets of New York political power has been a genuine shock to the state’s politics and even to its press, who missed the secret payments that appear to be at the heart of the reported Silver indictment.

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