Vance and assistant DA clash over wife-killer case — so she resigned

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. was so unsure about finally bringing charges against Rod Covlin in the 2009 murder of his wife that he pulled the lead prosecutor out of the grand-jury room as she was presenting evidence in the cold case to question her about it, The Post has learned. Enraged by Vance’s move, Assistant DA Ann Prunty quit on the spot and her boyfriend and fellow prosecutor, Dan Rather — son of the former CBS News anchor — considered resigning in...