Southern District U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is out of a job.

Bharara, who was told he would keep his position during a meeting with the President-elect at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan in November, announced via his personal Twitter account that he was fired just before 3 p.m. Saturday. “I did not resign,” he said in the tweet. “Moments ago, I was fired. Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life.”

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