Robert Morgenthau, 99, who became the scourge of white-collar criminals over thr...
NEW YORK - Robert Morgenthau, 99, who became the scourge of white-collar criminals over three decades as the Manhattan district attorney, died on Sunday, his family told the New York Times.
Preet Bharara, a former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said on Twitter late Sunday, “This is terribly sad. Robert Morgenthau, former SDNY US Attorney and Manhattan DA, was an unparalleled patriot, veteran, prosecutor, public servant. He gave his whole life to service. RIP.”
He indicted the bank and two foreign business figures on a variety of charges the he said constituted “the largest bank fraud in world financial history.” The Middle East-backed bank was eventually shut down around the world as some $20 billion disappeared from its books. Among the failures of his office were the 1990 convictions of the “Central Park 5” - young black and Latino men wrongly convicted of raping a jogger. Twelve years later, the convictions were vacated when another man confessed to the crime.Before making his first of eight runs for district attorney in 1974, Morgenthau, a Democrat, served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York after being appointed by President John F. Kennedy.
He grew up close to the Roosevelt family and Morgenthau’s office was decorated with framed pictures of him with presidents such as Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, as well as civil rights leader Martin Luther King other notable figures.
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