The New York Times takes a look at presidential hopeful Rudolph W. Giuliani, who waved his prosecutor’s scythe in the 1980s, and Wall Street barons, political bosses and Mafia dons seemed to fall in serried rows.
He was, to the popular eye, Eliot Ness reincarnated, an unsparing prosecutor for a crime-shadowed age. And when the United States attorney in Manhattan resigned in January 1989, he earned a tabloid salute: “Good News for Bad Guys,” The Daily News proclaimed. “Crimebuster Giuliani Steps Down.” Rudolph W. Giuliani waved his prosecutor’s scythe in the […]