Former Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau dies aged 99
Morgenthau spent more than 30 years jailing criminals, from mob kingpins and drug-dealing killers to a tax-dodging Harvard dean
Former Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau, who spent more than three decades jailing criminals from mob kingpins and drug-dealing killers to a tax-dodging Harvard dean, died on Sunday. He was 99, just 10 days short of his 100th birthday.
Morgenthau died at Manhattan’s Lenox Hill hospital after a short illness, his wife Lucinda Franks told the New York Times.