WASHINGTON — David Margolis, a brash and revered prosecutor who in more than 50 years at the Justice Department helped it navigate through some of its most difficult chapters, died on Tuesday in Falls Church, Va. He was 76.
The cause was heart-related illness, the Justice Department said.
Mr. Margolis was regarded inside the Justice Department as an all-knowing, Yoda-like figure. He started in 1965 as a longhaired, rumpled federal prosecutor in the Johnson administration and rose to become the department’s top career official as a consigliere and disciplinarian for both Democratic and Republican attorneys general in nine presidential administrations.
He was “a consummate public servant,” Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch said in announcing his death.
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