Carl Andrew "Andy" Capasso (September 10, 1945 – March 14, 2001) was a sewer contractor, who was convicted of tax fraud.[1][2] He was later accused of bribing judge Hortense Gabel by arranging, for the judge's daughter Sukhreet Gabel, a job with Bess Myerson. Myerson was indicted and resigned her positions with the City of New York, but was ultimately acquitted.[3] The scandal was the subject of When She Was Bad, a book by Shana Alexander published in 1991.
nyt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).In a pre-sentence memorandum in Mr. Capasso's tax-evasion case, the prosecutor, David N. Lawrence, an assistant United States Attorney in Manhattan, said an organized-crime leader, Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno, and his lieutenants were overheard discussing Mr. Capasso's role in the distribution of construction projects in the city. ...
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 and a net worth of some $12 million? ... Capasso, who is serving three years in federal prison for income tax evasion. Born in 1945 -- the year Myerson was crowned Miss America -- Capasso came along during Myerson's losing Senate bid in 1980, helped her pay off campaign debts, bought her a Mercedes and a fur coat, and gave her the run of his Long Island mansion. All was seeming paradise until Nancy Capasso found out about Bess two years after the affair started, kicked Capasso out of their $6 million Fifth Avenue duplex, and asked for alimony.