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NAME — Preetinder S. Bharara

BORN — Ferozepur, India

RAISED — From age 2 in Eatontown along the New Jersey shore in Monmouth County

SCHOOL — Graduated from Harvard in 1990 and Columbia Law School in 1993

PRE-U.S. ATTORNEY ACCOMPLISHMENT — As U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer’s chief counsel, helped lead probe into firings of nine U.S. attorneys

HERO — Bruce Springsteen

PERSONALITY TRAIT — Humor. Dropped 16 jokes into a Harvard Law School speech.

FAMILY — Wife, two sons and a daughter

QUOTE: “Humorlessness correlates directly with pomposity and, I really believe, also with failure.”

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