Carl Andrew Capasso

Carl Andrew "Andy" Capasso (September 10, 1945 – March 14, 2001) was a sewer contractor, who was convicted of tax fraud. He was later accused of bribing judge Hortense Gabel by arranging a job for the judge's daughter, Sukhreet Gabel, with Bess Myerson. Myerson was indicted and resigned her positions with the City of New York, but was ultimately acquitted. The scandal was the subject of When She Was Bad, a book by Shana Alexander published in 1991.

Biography Capasso was born in Brooklyn on September 10, 1945 to Josephine and Michael E. Capasso. He married Nancy Herbert in 1966.

Capasso started a construction company, Nanco Contracting Corporation, and won several contracts in New York City for sewer repair. In 1987, he was charged with writing off $1.2 million in renovations on his two Manhattan apartments as business expenses; and for receiving $300,000 in fraudulent damage claims against his own company without paying taxes on the income. In 1989 he used a front company to win a new contract. He is buried in Southampton Cemetery.