Michael F. Armstrong

Michael Francis Armstrong (December 14, 1932 – October 17, 2019) was an American lawyer, based in New York City.

In 1991, The New York Times described him as "the consummate New York lawyer."

Biography Armstrong graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1954, then served in the US Air Force, and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1960. In 1973 he was named interim Queens District Attorney by Governor Nelson Rockefeller to fill out remainder of the term of Thomas J. Mackell, who had been indicted and resigned.

Armstrong represented the children of Martha "Sunny" von Bulow in a civil suit against her husband, Claus von Bülow, over her estate.

Later, he was chairman of the review panel on the Central Park jogger case. In 2002 New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly commissioned a panel of three lawyers, including him, to review the case. The panel issued a 43-page report in January 2003.

In June 2005 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Armstrong chairman of The Commission to Combat Police Corruption. The panel was formed in 1995, and conducts audits and studies on the department's anticorruption strategies.

Armstrong died at his home in Manhattan on October 17, 2019.