Bharara’s Deputy Wall Street Cop Brings CV Pairing Citi, Gotti
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As a federal prosecutor, he twice failed to win racketeering convictions against the son of the late mob boss John Gotti. As a private lawyer, he helped Citigroup avoid criminal charges in the Libor rate-fixing scandal.
Those moments don’t look like resume-builders for Joon Kim as he takes on a high-powered new job at the Justice Department, in the shadow of Wall Street. But they show why people who know Kim say he’ll thrive as the top deputy to Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.