Word: gabel
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...same courthouse last week, Judge John Keenan continued hearing testimony in the trial of Bess Myerson, 64, her lover Carl Capasso, 43, and former State Judge Hortense Gabel, who once presided over Capasso's divorce case. Myerson, formerly New York City cultural-affairs commissioner, is accused of putting Gabel's daughter Sukhreet on the public payroll in order to get Gabel to lower Capasso's alimony payments. Many New Yorkers seem less offended by Myerson's alleged misdeeds than by the behavior of Sukhreet, 39, who cheerfully testified for eight days against her 75-year-old mother. "This is what...
Turning the criticisms into positive action is a major theme of discussion at the conference. For an energetic Professor Peter Gabel, short-sleeve clad and with shoulder-length hair, taking CLS out of the classroom and onto the streets is the top priority for the next year...
...political lawyers continue to transform society and social relations, continue to practice work in that world and remain in touch with our central vision?" asks Gabel, who teaches at the New College of Law in San Francisco...
...romance with Contractor Carl Capasso was a family-wrecking affair, upended when Capasso ran into the tax trouble that got him a four-year prison term. Worse still were charges that in 1983 Myerson gave a $19,000 job to the daughter of State Supreme Court Justice Hortense Gabel in order to induce the judge to reduce Capasso's alimony and child-support payments. Last week a federal grand jury indicted Myerson, Gabel and Capasso on counts of conspiracy, mail fraud and bribery. Myerson, 63, who was also charged with obstruction of justice, could receive 30 years and fines...
...stepped down from her post as the city's commissioner of cultural affairs after her boyfriend, Building Contractor Carl Capasso, was indicted on federal tax- evasion charges. Myerson hit bottom last week when Koch released classified details of an official investigation charging that she had improperly influenced Judge Hortense Gabel, who was handling Capasso's divorce case. The inquiry sharply criticized Myerson's decision to employ Gabel's daughter Sukhreet as her special assistant just two weeks before the judge slashed Capasso's alimony payments. The report also alleges a coverup: Myerson lied about the circumstances and timing...