Robert Morgenthau

Robert Morgenthau is Back, and He's Mike Bloomberg's Problem

​ Two New Yorkers who don't necessarily view Mike Bloomberg as the greatest mayor of our time have now teamed up, and the result could be one big bad third term headache for the city's richest man. One of the Bloomy dissidents is Brooklyn federal judge Nicholas Garaufis, a normally mild ... More >>

Eric Schneiderman Blasts His AG Candidate Counterpart, Kathleen Rice, Over a Tiny Uptick in Crime?

Eric Schneiderman​The ongoing war of words between State Senator Eric Schneiderman and Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, two of the top candidates for New York Attorney General, is at least novel. Does anyone really think a DA should be blamed, as Schneiderman has Rice, if crime g ... More >>

Robert Morgenthau, Former DA, Joins Wachtell, Lipton Law Firm

Congratulations to Robert Morgenthau, who has joined the prestigious law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz at the age of 90. Wachtell Lipton was one of the sponsors of the Annual Vera Institute of Justice Benefit at which Morgenthau was the guest of honor this year. The firm specializes in cor ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​Eek, it 's Michael Musto, in a series of glamorous guises (we're not showing his Susan Boyle because we want you to prepare yourself first) and Running Down the Decade like it's never been run down before. (He also gets in not one, but three Top Tens. What a trouper!) Francis Davis presi ... More >>

Morgy's Parting $268M Gift Gets Another Shrug From City Hall

Exiting with class, something Bloomberg was unable to do.​Outgoing Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau gave New Yorkers a $268 million present yesterday -- their share of a huge, $536 million deal reached with a very rich Swiss bank that admitted having illegally routed Iranian funds through the U. ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​Sailors used to roll around the city like Gene Kelly, but security concerns and technology have changed things, and now they mostly stay on the ships or, if they're lucky, at rare havens like the Seafarers & International House. The men whose boats brought you almost everything you have are m ... More >>

New Bloomberg Threat and This Time It's To Cuomo

There's something familiar about this third-term Mike Bloomberg...​On a panel last night discussing the city's new political landscape, Times columnist Clyde Haberman suggested to the crowd at the Baruch College School of Public Affairs that the signs so far from Mike Bloomberg are a little om ... More >>

Breaking: H&H Bagels Owner Indicted for Stealing Withholding Taxes and Unemployment Insurance Tax Evasion

Ty Hewitt/New York Magazine​Earlier this afternoon, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced the arrest and indictment of Helmer Toro, the owner of H&H Bagels, for stealing withholding taxes and evading unemployment insurance tax in connection with his wholesale and retail busin ... More >>

D.A.: H&H Bagel King Collected Taxes from Workers, Didn't Give to Govt.

Poor Helmer Toro, owner of the legendary H&H Bagels, can't seem to stay out of trouble. In summer 2008 we noted some of his legal and financial woes, including a $2.335 million property lien brought against him by the IRS. Toro had previously been accused of shunting some of his tax liability to a q ... More >>

Police Raid (Printing Plant of) The New York Times!

​Police raid New York Times! Our tired old eyes leapt at this poorly-scanned headline, but alas, it's just more union shenanigans, apparently: the Manhattan D.A. sent investigators into the paper's Queens printing plant as part of its look-see into the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union, wh ... More >>

Morgenthau Night at the Javits Center

​Being Veterans Day eve, it was fitting that past and present employees of the Manhattan District Attorney's office gathered last night to honor their outgoing boss, Robert Morgenthau, who has headed the office since 1975. Morgenthau is a veteran of the Second World War where he served as a L ... More >>

Barrett: Builder Blamed In Firefighter Deaths Is Building Bill Thompson's Wife's Museum

​Bovis Lend Lease, the contractor whose admitted failings contributed to the deaths of two firefighters at the Deutsche Bank fire in 2007, is building the $180 million museum and condo project on Fifth Avenue spearheaded by Elsie McCabe, the wife of mayoral candidate and Comptroller Bill Thomp ... More >>

DA: father of DUI mom's toddler knew she was driving drunk

​DA Robert Morgenthau announced charges Friday in the DUI accident that killed 11 year old Leandra Rosado. Morgenthau said that Eduardo Henriquez, the father of Carmen Huertas' 14 month old, confronted her about being too drunk to drive while she was loading eight children into her car after ... More >>

Mob Schemed City Buildings Department

​Here's a new money-making angle from the city's now- vanished building boom: The city's Department of Buildings somehow managed to hire a pair of alleged Mafia associates as building inspectors, who promptly began soliciting bribes from contractors all over town to ignore violations and s ... More >>

Primary Culler: Snyder and Vance Spar in Manhattan D.A. Race; Might Aborn Be the Odd Man In?

​The Manhattan D.A. primary race is a big deal; for the first time since 1975, Robert Morgenthau is not in it, and the three contenders are sprinting hard for the finish line: Richard Aborn brought back former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and a chainsaw attack victim for his "closing argum ... More >>

Barrett: Leslie Crocker Snyder's Unsavory Campaign Donors

​Judging people by the company they keep may not always be fair game, but it is fitting, on the eve of next week's primary, to take the measure of Leslie Crocker Snyder by examining the dubious donors bankrolling her campaign for Manhattan District Attorney. News stories about bad-boy contrib ... More >>

Bloomberg's Biggest Scandal—The Deutsche Bank Fire—Should Be His Downfall. Why Isn't It?

Quick Hits

Mayor Bloomberg spoke for Sonia Sotomayor at the hearings today, lauded her appointment on diversity grounds in that she would represent The Bronx. (Ginsburg is from Brooklyn, Scalia from Queens.) "My grandmother was born in Montgomery, Alabama," Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau told Alabama Sena ... More >>

Light Up His Life: Rape Rap for 71-Year-Old Tunesmith

Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau has called a 11:45 press conference to announce an indictment on rape and sexual assault charges for song writer Joseph Brooks, whose cotton-candy confection, "You Light Up My Life," went to the top of the charts for Debbie Boone and won an Academy Award for Best Ori ... More >>

Chinese Arms Shipper to Iran Indicted -- But Maybe Untouchable

Evidently New York banks aren't just good for imploding the world economy and then sucking up taxpayer money in order to rebuild. They're also a good way to send and receive illegal payments. Chinese citizen Li Fang Wei, the manager of Chinese company LIMMT, has just been indicted by the Manh ... More >>

Aborn gets a Bratton Boost

Dark horse Manhattan DA candidate Richard Aborn (pictured) picked up an all star endorsement this morning from ex-NYPD and current Los Angeles police commish Bill Bratton. Speaking on a conference call with reporters from Washington where he said he was attending -- what else, a conference -- Bra ... More >>

Mob Expected at DA Candidate's Kick-Off Party

Cyrus Vance Jr.'s campaign to succeed Robert Morgenthau as Manhattan District Attorney is holding its big kickoff fundraiser on March 31st. Tickets range from $50,000 (event chair level), to $500 (mere guest). The event will be held at an interesting location for an aspiring crime-busting DA: Fr ... More >>

Morgy's Great Dead Sea Scrolls Bust

Attention all would-be Manhattan District Attorneys: Forget for the moment about seizing or destroying the mantle of the now retiring Robert Morgenthau and declare yourself on the latest arrest by his office of one Raphael Haim Golb -- a brand new case that reminds us that not just anyone can be Man ... More >>

Au Revoir Morgenthau: D.A. to Retire

Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau will not run for reelection this year, says the Times. That's too bad. Morgenthau has served in the office since 1975. His skills were forged in an altogether livelier era of New York criminality, and seem not to have declined with age, as was shown in Tom Robbins' r ... More >>

Robert Morgenthau's Last Hurrah

We get few lessons in grace these days, especially from locally elected officials. But Robert Morgenthau, who was first elected District Attorney of New York County a few months after Gerald Ford took office as president so long ago, gave us one late Friday afternoon. He sat at a bare wooden table ... More >>

This Week in the Voice (Updated)

Sure, forcing food down ducks' gullets sounds harsh, but Sarah DiGregorio held her nose and went to a New York foie gras farm -- and reports that it wasn't so bad. "I don't think it's OK to cut the fin off a shark and throw it back into the water," she says. "If I had seen with my own eyes that Huds ... More >>

Morgenthau Nails Wire-Transfer Schemers; Bloomberg Yawns

Morgenthau Slings Softly at City in Crane Case

The four deadly slings.More people were killed by the deadly crane collapse that fell last March on Manhattan's East Side (seven) than have so far been slain by Hamas rockets in Israel since the ceasefire ended last month (four). But prosecutors yesterday pinned the blame for t ... More >>

John Galt, 3 Men Charged in Deutsche Bank Fire; City Gets Off

Crane Inspector Indicted

Post Says DA Looking to Charge Deutsche Bank Inspectors, Contractors

DA May Sue City Over Deutsche Bank, Says NYT

Manhattan DA: Sub-prime Double Standard is 'Un-American'

Criminal Probe of Deutsche Bank Building Fire Launched

Morgenthau Exhales

‘Times’ Gives Morgenthau a Death Sentence

Paper backs Snyder over NYC's liberal beacon

'9/11/03: A Day in the Life of New York'

Serving a Life Term

Morgenthau: The long, long, long, long arm of the law

The Dragon Lady Runs for D.A.

Ex-judge Leslie Crocker Snyder wants to talk about everything except her law firm

Guilty While Pedaling

Bikes, cameras, action!

Hear No Evil

GOP judge tried to shut down the Velella probe. Quid pro quo not always wrong, he said.

Infernal Racket

The Mafia Doesn’t Just Break Legs. It Can Also Break the Spirit.

A Journey Through the Tangled Case of the Central Park Jogger

When Justice Is a Game

The Louima Prosecutor

Pataki and D'Amato's Pick Is Unqualified and Tainted

Pataki Patronage

The Guv's Attempt to Name a Prosecutor Lays Bare His Own Scandal

Will Morgenthau Do Justice?

The First Trial Judge Was Over His Head

The Newspaper Racket

Tough Guys and Wiseguys in the Truck Drivers Union

HUD: The Horror Movie

A Big Fish Fries the Little Fish in Harlem-Brooklyn Mortgage Scam

Daddy Under the Gun

Publicly, Rap Mogul Won’t Beg; Quietly, He Pleads

Morgenthau's Mess

The D.A. Fires a Blank at the Cops Who Killed Dorismond