The Nation - News from May 30, 1988

Attorney Doris Sassower, of White Plains, N.Y., said she distinctly remembers overhearing Bess Myerson telling a judge that a job “could be arranged” for the jurist’s daughter. Myerson, 63, a former New York City cultural affairs commissioner who won the Miss America title in 1945, is charged with giving former Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Hortense W. Gabel’s daughter a $19,000-a-year job in 1983 in exchange for the judge’s agreement to reduce alimony payments by Myerson’s sweetheart, former city contractor Carl (Andy) Capasso, 41. On Friday, Myerson was arrested on charges of shoplifting $44.07 worth of merchandise near Allenwood, Pa., Federal Penitentiary, where she had been visiting Capasso, who is in jail for tax evasion.