Avenue of the Americas September Special Presentation with the U.S. Attorney

Join the Avenue of the Americas Association
For A Special Conversation with
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara

Moderated by Ken Kurson
Editor-In-Chief of the New York Observer

Thursday, September 18, 2014
12:00 PM - Lunch
12: 30 PM - Q&A with the U.S. Attorney

McGraw Hill Financial
1221 Avenue of the Americas, Room 208
New York, NY 10020

On May 15, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Preet Bharara to become the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Bharara’s nomination was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 7, 2009, and he was sworn in on August 13, 2009. As U.S. Attorney, Mr. Bharara oversees the investigation and litigation of all criminal and civil cases brought on behalf of the United States in the Southern District of New York, which encompasses New York, Bronx, Westchester, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Sullivan counties. He supervises an office of more than 210 Assistant U.S. Attorneys, who handle a high volume of cases that involve domestic and international terrorism, narcotics and arms trafficking, financial and healthcare fraud, public corruption, gang violence, organized crime, and civil rights violations. Mr. Bharara graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with an A.B. in Government in 1990, and from Columbia Law School with a J.D. in 1993, where he was a member of the Columbia Law Review.

Ken Kurson is the Editor-In-Chief of the New York Observer and Editorial Director of the Observer Media Group. For 25 years, The New York Observer has been the go-to source for an insider’s perspective on culture, media, technology, politics, real estate, society and the city’s most powerful characters. The Observer is delivered to Manhattan’s most affluent, educated and influential consumers (average HHI of $644,000 and average net worth of $4.1 million). The New York Observer is a part of Observer Media, a diversified media company including the Commercial Observer, luxury magazines Scene and Yue, and Observer web properties (observer.com, politicker.com, galleristny.com, betabeat.com).

Most recently, Ken Kurson, 44, was a partner and Executive Vice President at Jamestown Associates, one of the nation’s most successful political and public affairs consulting firms. Kurson lives in South Orange, NJ, with his wife, Rebecca, and their three children, Steve, Carrie and Chaya.

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