Longest Time Fighting Crime? Not the Prosecutor, but Close (NYC)
When Frank S. Hogan left his post as the Manhattan district attorney after 32 years, few thought anyone would match his longevity. Then came Robert M. Morgenthau, who recently announced that this year, his 35th, would be his last.
But neither of these legal titans can come close to the remarkable career of Ida Van Lindt, their secretary.
She is in her 53rd year at the district attorney’s office, a tenure that has taken her through eras of raging street crime and sophisticated white-collar swindles; of corrupt police officers, public officials and Wall Street schemers. As the gatekeeper of the personal and public lives of Mr. Hogan and Mr. Morgenthau — considered New York institutions in their own right — Ms. Van Lindt has had a courtside seat to crime fighting in the city unlike anyone else.
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But neither of these legal titans can come close to the remarkable career of Ida Van Lindt, their secretary.
She is in her 53rd year at the district attorney’s office, a tenure that has taken her through eras of raging street crime and sophisticated white-collar swindles; of corrupt police officers, public officials and Wall Street schemers. As the gatekeeper of the personal and public lives of Mr. Hogan and Mr. Morgenthau — considered New York institutions in their own right — Ms. Van Lindt has had a courtside seat to crime fighting in the city unlike anyone else.