The Nation - News from June 30, 1987
Hortense W. Gabel, the New York state Supreme Court justice whose dealings with Bess Myerson are at the crux of a scandal, resigned. In a letter to Chief Judge Sol Wachtler of the state Court of Appeals, Gabel, 74, said she suffered “serious health problems.” An investigator found that Myerson had misused her position as New York City cultural affairs commissioner to influence Gabel, who was presiding over the divorce case of Carl A. Capasso, with whom Myerson was involved.
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