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Preet Bharara (North American South Asian Bar Association )

New York U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara changed some of the leadership at the Southern District office, only days after he has sworn in as Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Reuters reported today.

Those getting promotions are:

• Boyd Johnson
  -New Post: Deputy U.S. Attorney
  -Previous Post: Chief of the office’s public corruption, international narcotics and trafficking units; oversaw the investigation of a prostitution ring used by former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer
  -Joined office in: 1999

• Raymond Lohier
  -New post: Chief of the criminal division’s securities and commodities fraud task force
  -Previous post: Deputy chief of the criminal division’s securities and commodities fraud task force
  -Joined office in: 2000
• Miriam Rocah
  -New post: Chief of the criminal division’s organized crime unit
  -Previous post: Deputy chief of the criminal division’s organized crime unit and the narcotics unit
  -Joined office in: 2001
• Daniel Stein
  -New post: Chief of the criminal division’s public corruption unit
  -Previous post: Prosecutor in the criminal division’s public corruption unit and international narcotics trafficking unit
  -Joined office in: 2003

Bharara was sworn in as U.S. Attorney last Thursday. He succeeded Michael J. Garcia, who resigned as U.S. Attorney in December. Bharara was chief counsel to Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on the Senate Judiciary Committee staff from 2005 to 2009. Before that, he spent five years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District.