Reform Party's Bharara nod falls through
ALBANY — Reform Party Chairman and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa said he was unable to track down former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to secure his signature as the third party's nominee for attorney general by the May 23 deadline.
"I looked all over for Preet," Sliwa wrote in a email to the Times Union Friday afternoon. "He never said no ... but he didn't sign up as Yes on the required date. So we have to move on."
Party leaders last week announced that the Reform Party had endorsed Bharara, even though the former prosecutor had not indicated that he would seek the seat of embattled former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
Bharara, whose pursuit of corruption in state government led to the convictions of two legislative leaders before he was fired by President Donald Trump in 2016, said on his radio show earlier this month that he was "flattered" by the many calls for him to step into the role, but that politics was not his "cup of tea."
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