Otto Obermaier, Who Succeeded Giuliani as U.S. Attorney, Dies at 89

Otto Obermaier, Who Succeeded Giuliani as U.S. Attorney, Dies at 89

Otto G. Obermaier, a former defense lawyer who restored a tone of modest judiciousness as the chief federal prosecutor in New York after five years of breathless investigations under Rudolph W. Giuliani, died on Friday at a retirement home in Fairfax County, Va. He was 89. The cause was complications of a fall, his son Joseph said. Mr. Obermaier served as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from September 1989 to February 199…