BUCHAREST, Romania — Prosecutor Denisa Cristodor made history last fall, launching Romania’s first case against a communist-era prison guard suspected of crimes against humanity.
The 37-year-old is blazing a trail on another surprising front, as part of a vanguard of young women prosecutors and judges shaking up Romanian society by going after its sacred cows: ministers and moguls who bled the state of hundreds of millions and former prison commanders in communist-era prisons suspected of torture and …