The Nation - News from March 31, 1987

U.S. District Judge Charles Stewart in New York sentenced Carl A. Capasso, a city contractor and friend of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson, to four years in prison for tax evasion. He also fined Capasso $500,000 and placed him on three years’ probation. Capasso, president of Nanco Contracting Corp., had pleaded guilty. He was charged with writing off as company expenses $1.2 million in renovations on two Manhattan apartments he owns, and filing more than $300,000 in phony damage claims. Myerson took an unpaid leave after admitting she took the Fifth Amendment before a grand jury probing Capasso.