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EFTA00769522 | EFTA00769523 DAILYNNEWS NYDAILYNEWS.COM Daily News endorses Cy Vance for Manhattan District Attorney Sunday, August 9th 2009 The clear choice to succeed Robert Morgenthau as Manhattan district attorney is Cy Vance. For the good of all New Yorkers, leadership of the nation's premier local prosecutor's office must go to a top-flight legal talent who shows the superior vision and judgment needed to sustain this criminal justice flagship. Vance stands well above his rivals in fitness to extend the excellence the city has come to take for granted during Morgenthau's 35 years at the helm. Preparing for his departure at 90 years of age, Morgenthau gave intense consideration to the question of who among would-be successors has what it takes. He chose Vance, no small honor coming from a man who has groomed scores of New York's best lawyers and judges, including new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Vance built a distinguished career, both as a Morgenthau assistant and as a nationally known big-case defense lawyer. His experience ranges from homicide to white-collar crime to complex corporate litigation. Thanks to the depth of his background, Vance shows a greater understanding than do his two challengers of the missions of the Manhattan district attorney, as they have been elevated by Morgenthau. Those start with prosecution of violent crime and extend to policing Wall Street, busting corrupt politicians, even to stopping the illicit flow of money and weapons technology to regimes like Iran. Vance would build on strengths and address weaknesses. Among them, he would beef up quality-of-life enforcement by fixing a dysfunctional Criminal Court, maintain the DA's gold-standard rackets bureau and create a program to head off recidivism by newly released inmates. Rivals Leslie Crocker Snyder and Richard Aborn can't match Vance. Snyder was a successful Manhattan prosecutor in the early 1970s and a respected Criminal Court judge and acting Supreme Court justice for almost 20 years. ending in 2004. She developed a reputation as a tough jurist presiding over drug-gang cases. While Snyder's accomplishments. energy and familiarity with criminal justice are significant, she has failed more recently to show a full tempering of judgment or a convincing commitment to what she stands for. Consider the death penalty. On the bench. Snyder backed capital punishment with gusto. In a 2002 memoir. she wrote of one defendant,1 actually told [him] that he should have received the death penalty and that I would have been willing to give him the lethal injection myself." Then, running against Morgenthau four years ago in anti-death penalty Manhattan. she backed execution only for terrorists and child rapist-murderers. Today. she opposes all capital punishment, citing concern for errors. Similarly. Snyder has morphed from emphasizing law and order to promising an ill-defined program to divert first-time nonviolent offenders into some form of preventive social work. And Snyder was simply wrong to promise a grand jury investigation into the disappearance 30 years ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz while accepting the endorsement of Etan's father. Wrong to hold a fund-raiser in a nightclub that had been the scene of drug dealing and brawls. Wrong to insert personal opinions into a prosecution report. And wrong in 2005 to criticize Morgenthau for supposedly focusing too much on major business fraud. In that last position. Snyder was urging dismantling of a potent check on financial industry corruption - an operation that delivers 5300 million a year to the city and state in seized assets and tax arrears. Today. post-economic meltdown, she has been forced to recover by vowing white-collar crackdowns for the little guy." Richard Aborn is the third candidate in the race. A former prosecutor, gun control advocate and criminal justice consultant. he is running almost entirely on a platform of reorienting the office into trying to prevent crime through social programs. The Manhattan DA's office is a crucial pillar underpinning civic life in New York - from the streets to the suites. It is an invaluable asset and must remain so. The right person in this race is Cy Vance, without a doubt. Paid for by Cyrus Vance for Manhattan District Attorney' Printed in-house. Labor donated. EFTA00769523
May 6, 2026 at 7:40 AM