Former Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, has died age 99, just 10 days short of his 100th birthday.
NEW YORK — Former Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, who spent more than three decades jailing criminals from mob kingpins and drug-dealing killers to a tax-dodging Harvard dean, died Sunday. He was 99, just 10 days short of his 100th birthday.
In his position at the forefront of Manhattan's legal and political scene, Morgenthau cultivated a dignified, above-the-fray presence, and was widely acknowledged by allies and foes alike as effective, nonpartisan and incorruptible. Former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau listens during an interview at his office in New York in this Dec. 16, 2009 file photo, as he prepared to step down after 35 years as DA.That premise was put to the test in the Central Park jogger case, one of the most sensational prosecutions handled by his office.
After the war, Morgenthau earned a law degree from Yale and joined a New York law firm headed by former U.S. secretary of war Robert P. Patterson. Morgenthau was forced out as federal prosecutor in January 1970 by President Richard M. Nixon after months of resisting political pressure to resign. He briefly joined Mayor John Lindsay's administration as a deputy mayor, then waged another losing gubernatorial race before leaving the public eye for the next four years, engaged in private law practice.
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