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Hortense Wittstein Gabel (December 16, 1912 – December 6, 1990) was an American lawyer who served on the New York Supreme Court. Her judicial career came to an end after she was charged with lowering alimony payments for Carl Andrew Capasso in exchange for a position for her daughter at the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, which was then headed by Capasso's lover Bess Myerson. ==Biography== She was born as Hortense Wittstein in the Bronx on December 16, 1912 to Bessie and Rubin J. Wittstein. She attended Hunter College High School.〔Johnston, Laurie. ("Competition Intense Among Intellectually Gifted 6th Graders for Openings at Hunter College High School; Prominent Alumni Program for Seniors" ), ''The New York Times'', March 21, 1977. Accessed May 11, 2010.〕 She graduated from Hunter College in 1934 and earned her law degree from Columbia Law School in 1937 and went to work at her father's law firm. She left her father's law firm in 1944 to marry Dr. Milton Gabel, a United States Army dentist stationed at Fort Hood, Texas. Gabel had her first association with housing in 1955, when she was appointed as general counsel to the Temporary State Rent Commission. In May 1959 she was hired by the city to create a neighborhood conservation program and was given a second position in 1960 as an assistant to the mayor on slum clearance issues. On April 12, 1962, Mayor of New York City Robert F. Wagner, Jr. appointed her to head the city's Rent and Rehabilitation Agency, in which she oversaw the nearly 5,000,000 residents living in rent controlled apartments.〔Samuels, Gertrude. ("Lady Against the Slums; Hortense Gabel, head of the new rent control agency, dreams of a slumless New York, and does her vigorous best to achieve it with fairness to both tenant and landlord." ), ''The New York Times'', August 12, 1962. Accessed May 12, 2010.〕 While under investigation in the Myerson case, Gabel was removed from her position as a trial judge in June 1987 by Milton Williams, the deputy chief administrative judge for the city's courts.〔Levitt, Leonard. ("Justice Gabel Relieved of Trial Duties" ), ''Newsday'', June 17, 1987. Accessed May 12, 2010.〕 After a two-month-long trial, Gabel was acquitted in December 1988 of charges that she had reduced Andy Capasso's alimony payments in exchange for Bess Myerson hiring Gabel's daughter Sukhreet to a $19,000 position as a special assistant.〔Kurtz, Howard. ("Myerson, 2 Others Acquitted of All Charges" ), ''The Washington Post'', December 23, 1988. Accessed May 12, 2010.〕 Gabel died of heart failure at age 77 on December 6, 1990.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hortense Gabel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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