Is discusses her memoir time is love morgenthaler and me. It tells the story of her life with former Manhattan District Attorney robert morgenthaler. The event is part of the reading festival at hyde park new york and ended his 40 minutes. Now it is my great pleasure to introduce our speaker he author of timeless love, loved morgenthaler and me a memoir of her unconventional marriage to the most colorful prosecutor Robert Morgenthau who we are honored to have us here today. [applause] her other books include waiting out a war the file, by old apple which was a novel and my fathers secret war which is another memoir. A staff writer for the New York Times shes also written for the new yorker, the New York Times magazine and the atlantic and why Pulitzer Prize for the reporting on the life and death remembered as the of a member of the weathermen. A graduate of our own college was in the friends lives in new york city with her husband the legendary District Attorney for new york and rober
People ive known in law enforcement. But keep in mind persecutors of the performance evaluation is based on their conviction rate. The performance evaluation is based on the positive press for the office. For anybody to think that theres there is not a selective prosecution, i just think that you are really naive. On the sentencing issue i dont have a problem with people that are involved in whitecollar crimes that we punished them by making them pay restitution and pay fines, double their fines, do whatever. I dont have a problem with that. I dont think everybody has to go to prison to pay for the mistakes. Its like you get a parking violation. Im not saying the same thing for the whitecollar criminals but i can assure you there are many whitecollar criminals that were convicted for things they didnt even know that they did wrong. There was no criminal intent. That we but we put them in prison. I just think that its wrong. Your message seems to be getting some bipartisan support of th
Member of the Roosevelt Library and become a member of the information table just outside the door. At this time i would like to ask you to turn off your cell phones and thank cspan for covering this today and quickly go over the format for this session. We will start with our speaker in just a moment. Then i will follow that up if you have questions make your way over to the microphone so we are able to pick up the question in the author will move down the hall to the table outside of our new deals bookstore where you can purchase the book and have the author signed them. 2012 is an adjunct member of the Arizona State university and his fields of study include Public Policy, political history, latin america, u. S. mexico border land and sanford, arizona, i want to introduce patrick lukens. [applause] thank you. I want to thank bob clark and the rest of the staff and the president ial library to be one of todays presenters. And preparing this presentation and Headline News over the pas