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...federal prosecutors, Bess Myerson was the embodiment of the woman who loved too much: a New York City official who bribed respected state Supreme Court Justice Hortense Gabel to cut her boyfriend's alimony payments by giving Gabel's troubled daughter a job at the cultural affairs commission. To the daughter, Sukhreet Gabel, Myerson was a manipulative opportunist who banished her when the scam broke in the newspapers. To ex-wife Nancy Capasso, Myerson was a harridan who stole her husband Andy, moved into her house and wore her clothes. But to a federal jury charged with deciding her fate...
...conspiracy and bribery trial that ended last week in Manhattan seemed a case of three people risking too much for too little. Why would a respected jurist like Gabel, 76, jeopardize her 16 years on the bench for a job for her daughter? Why would Myerson -- a successful and well-to-do former Miss America, a former candidate for the U.S. Senate -- care whether Nancy Capasso < got $1,500 a week or $500? And what was $1,000 a week more or less to Andy Capasso, 43, a sewer contractor with multiple homes and cars, city contracts worth $150 million...
Some spectators divide their time between the Myerson and Steinberg courtrooms, hurrying from the ornate federal chambers to the scuffed and grimy criminal courtrooms two blocks away. "The Myerson trial is political comedy," says Robert Comeau, 71, a retired maintenance man. "This is a serious drama." Much of the fascination is with Steinberg, who seems to strike many observers in the public galleries as the personification of evil. He watches the proceedings intently, taking notes and exchanging points with his lawyers. Asks Creighton Pickering, 20, a photography student: "What ever possessed him?" Others come with thoughts of Lisa in mind...
...Myerson trial, some regulars gather at the end of each day in front of the courthouse, hoping to glimpse Myerson on the way out. But like many a star, she usually eludes her public by slipping through a back door. Frieda Nuss, 58, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, sighs at the thought that Myerson might be guilty: "She could have enjoyed her twilight years." At least everyone else is enjoying them. And in January the real estate moguls Leona and Harry Helmsley -- the billionaires New Yorkers love to hate -- are scheduled to come to trial for income-tax evasion. Will Broadway...
...cluster of high- profile cases turns Manhattan courtrooms into SRO theaters. The line forms early to see former beauty queen Bess Myerson or accused child murderer Joel Steinberg...