Preet Bharara

At a conference on white-collar crime also addressed by Manhattan's chief federal prosecutor, New York's top state prosecutor urged business lawyers to tip off the government about possible legal violations: "You operate in a world where you may learn of facts that are appropriate for investigation, from scams directed at the public or the government, to wrongful conduct in the financial sector," state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said, according to the New York Law Journal.

Preet Bharara, U.S.

"There is not even a chance we will do one day in jail,” Danielle Chiesi told Reuters last year, speaking of herself and Raj Rajaratnam.

In my editorial “Consider the Source,” I speculated that Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was intent on “postmodernizing” the laws he enforces, starting with the “insider trading” regulations.