N.Y. Justice Tied to Myerson Scandal Quits
- Share via
NEW YORK — Hortense W. Gabel, the state Supreme Court justice whose dealings with Bess Myerson are at the crux of a scandal, resigned Monday.
In a letter to Chief Judge Sol Wachtler of the state Court of Appeals, Gabel, 74, said she suffered “serious health problems” but had thought they would not impair her effectiveness as a judge.
Myerson, a former Miss America, was the city’s commissioner of cultural affairs until earlier this year, after it was disclosed that she had taken the Fifth Amendment while testifying before a grand jury investigating her lover, Carl A. Capasso.
In the course of a city inquiry, an investigator found that Myerson had misused her position to influence Gabel, who was presiding over Capasso’s divorce case.
Capasso, a major city contractor, is serving a four-year sentence for tax evasion.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Dr. Vanessa J. Díaz, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Loyola Marymount University and co-author of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.
