Word: sukhreet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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, Myerson...
...week trial ultimately came down to Sukhreet Gabel. She had taped telephone conversations and stolen her mother's files and she seemed to relish testifying that her job and the judge's ruling in Capasso's divorce were no coincidence. Yet the obviously unstable Sukhreet came across like an indulged child desperate for attention. Judge John Keenan twice instructed the jurors on "reasonable doubt," and after four days they returned with a verdict: not guilty. Myerson brushed away tears and kissed Gabel. Then she walked past the cameras, smiling...
...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 she wanted...
...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 of the hiring in a letter to Koch. Myerson denies acting illegally, but she is under investigation by U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani...