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Ex-DC 37 Reformer Rosenthal Dies; Key Player in Clean-Up

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 7/17/17

Mark Rosenthal, a leader of the reform group within District Council 37 during the late 1990s who played a pivotal role in exposing the corruption that had infested the union at its highest levels, died July 15 at age 65.

His longtime lawyer, Arthur Schwartz, said in a phone interview the following afternoon that a cause of death was not yet known. He noted that Mr. Rosenthal had long suffered from diabetes and obesity and been felled by two strokes in the past.

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