Selwyn Raab, tenacious reporter who covered the mob, dies at 90

At The New York Times and elsewhere, he wrote about wrongful convictions, fake methadone clinics and the five powerful Mafia families in New York

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Selwyn Raab, an investigative reporter for The New York Times and other news organizations who in exacting detail explored the Mafia’s many tentacles, and whose doggedness helped lead to the exoneration of men wrongly convicted of notorious 1960s killings, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 90.

His son-in-law, Matthew Goldstein, a Times reporter, said the cause of his death, at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, was intestinal complications.

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