Robert Morgenthau, Longtime Manhattan Prosecutor, Dies at 99
- Fought crime in executive suite and city street for 35 years
- He successfully prosecuted Tyco’s ex-CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski
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Robert M. Morgenthau, New York’s longest-serving district attorney, who fought crime in executive suites and violence on city streets for 35 years, has died. He was 99.
Morgenthau’s wife, Lucinda Franks, said he died at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York on Sunday after a short illness, the New York Times reported.