Draft:Ankush Khardori

Ankush Khardori is a senior writer for Politico magazine. He has been a contributing editor for New York magazine previously covering legal affairs.

Khardori has appeared on CNN and MSNBC as a legal analyst to discuss the various indictments against former President, Donald Trump. Previously, Khardori was a federal prosecutor.

Khardori has written for The New York Times , The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books , The New Republic ,The Financial Times , The Atlantic , The American Prospect , Slate (magazine) and the Columbia Journalism Review.

Early life and ducation
Khardori grew up in Springfield, Illinois. He has a JD from Columbia University and a BA degree.

Work
Khardori worked at a law firm in New York City before becoming a federal prosecutor. Khardori specialized in commercial litigation and white-collar corporate defense during his law firm work.

He went on to become a federal prosecutor in the Justice Department focused on financial fraud and white-collar crime.

Writing
Khardori has profiled Merrick Garland, the attorney general in the Biden administration for Politico. He has written about Vivek Ramaswamy's campaigning in Iowa in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses.

Writing in New York Magazine, Khardori detailed several aspects of how a prison sentence for Donald Trump might be implemented. Khardori details how Trump might qualify for a minimum security prison after a possible conviction in the Federal prosecution of Trump for his attempts to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Khardori details how the Secret Service would handle the challenge of having a protectee in jail, which is going to be unprecedented. Khardori gives some details about the normal routines of prisoners at Federal prison camp in Pensacola, Florida. Khardori details why FPC, Pensacola might be where Trump would be housed in case he is imprisoned. Khardori explains that a home confinement for Trump in his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida is also a possibility that would be favored by the Secret Service and others.

Khardori wrote about the 'chaos inside Trump's legal team' providing some details about the internal dynamics of the Trump legal team. Khardori was on Morning Joe as well to discuss his reporting.

Khardori has written about the outsize role the U.S. Supreme Court is playing in deciding the 2024 U.S. Presidential election.

He wrote about how the plea deals by Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro affect Donald Trump's prospects in the election racketeering prosecution in Georgia against Trump and others. "The biggest recent setback for them is not what has happened in the way of these recent plea deals. It’s what just didn’t happen: a trial that would have given Trump and his lawyers a free and comprehensive preview of the case against the former president," according to Khardori.

Khardori also wrote about Trump's civil trial in New York involving business fraud.

He has written about the corruption allegations against New Jersey senator Bob Menendez and how a Supreme Court judgment may help Menendez.

Khardori has analyzed the lawsuit filed by a division of The Walt Disney Company against Florida governor Ron DeSantis. He also analyzed the $787.5 million settlement in the defamation lawsuit against Fox News and its corporate parent Fox Corporation filed by Dominion Voting Systems.