Morgenthau Denies Retirement Rumors
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The Manhattan district attorney, Robert Morgenthau, isn’t planning to retire soon. A gossip item in yesterday’s Page Six of the New York Post stated that Morgenthau, 88, was retiring to allow a former assistant district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., to replace him mid-term.
“There’s not a word of truth in that item,” a spokeswoman for the district attorney, Barbara Thompson, said. Mr. Vance told The New York Sun yesterday that he was not aware of any plan by Mr. Morgenthau to retire.
One source close to the district attorney said that Mr. Morgenthau routinely tells friends, “I’m too old to retire.”
Mr. Morgenthau, who will be 90 during his next election year of 2009, has an election fundraiser scheduled for January 10th at the Westwood Gallery in SoHo.