Double Life

The Shattering Affair between Chief Judge Sol Wachtler and Socialite Joy Silverman

Linda Wolfe

EPILOGUE

AT THE TIME THIS BOOK WENT TO PRESS, JOY SILVERMAN WAS, AS far as her acquaintances knew, still seeing David Samson, and Sol Wachtler was still in prison—but not at the Butner Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, the prison to which he had been assigned. Something had happened at Butner, something startling and enigmatic. Sol had been stabbed. He had received two wounds in his back, just above the right shoulder blade, wounds that penetrated his flesh to the depth of an inch, and were so close together, they could have been made by a fork with its middle tine removed.

The incident occurred on a Sunday evening late in November. According to Sol, he had been lying in his room—an unlocked private chamber in Butner’s mental-health wing—and listening through earphones to a radio, when someone crept into the area, put a pillow over his face, and attacked him.

According to the FBI, which quickly undertook an investigation of the incident, the injury appeared to be self-inflicted. They based this hypothesis on the location and shallowness of the wounds, and on the fact that at the time of the stabbing there had been only one other prisoner in the area, a delusional inmate whom they apparently judged incapable of the crime.

Sol’s family and his psychiatrist were enraged by the FBI’s supposition. “Why would he have wanted to hurt himself?” said Dr. Solomon. “I’d been down to see him just before this happened, and he was doing great. Sure, in the beginning they had him cleaning the grounds, picking up papers with a spoke. But now he was helping some inmates prepare for their high-school equivalency exams, and he was doing aerobics and lifting weights. And he’d gotten to know many of the prisoners, heard their stories, met their families—he told me that unlike the press, which kept calling him ‘the disgraced Sol Wachtler,’ the prisoners called him ‘Judge’ and ‘Your Honor.’ He felt comfortable. He had adjusted.”

But some of Sol’s friends accepted the FBI’s theory, seeing in it evidence that Sol was irrational, an idea that confirmed their loyal conviction that some form of madness had made him harass Joy Silverman in the first place. “Maybe he was just crazier than any of us ever knew,” one friend, a judge, said.

After the stabbing, Sol was kept for a month in what prison authorities call “administrative detention,” and prisoners call “isolation” or “the hole,” a locked cell where food is passed in through a slot in the door. Alone, he became noticeably depressed and seemed to lose track of time. Then, wearing leg irons and handcuffs, he was sent to a different prison, one with a full-service psychiatric wing. It was the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota, where he was given extensive psychiatric attention, treated with Prozac, and at last pronounced well enough to join the general prison population. He began living in an eight-by-fourteen-foot cell, sharing the limited space with three other inmates. And he began working, collecting a salary of twelve dollars a month. Ironically, the job he was given was to teach creative writing.

Occasionally, he would communicate with friends, writing letters in which he sometimes adopted a breezy, offhand style that seemed to make fun of all that had happened. “There isn’t a murderer, rapist, arsonist, or major drug dealer who doesn’t think of you as a great man,” he wrote to lawyer William Kunstler. “That includes the harasser of Joy Silverman.” “Here I am with murderers, rapists, bank robbers, drug dealers,” he wrote to columnist Cindy Adams. “Despite the stabbing, I have no fear of them. Of course, they’re scared to death of me, the man who harassed Joy Silverman.” He even told jokes in his letters. He was out of the psychiatric hospital, he wrote to Adams, and then, with an eerie allusion to the kidnap ad he had demanded Joy take, said, “I guess I’m just lucky—like the newspaper ad: ‘LOST. BEAGLE. Left ear missing. Blind and castrated. Answers to the name “Lucky.”’”

But sometimes his tone turned dark. In another letter to a friend, he described a visit paid to him by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, shortly before he resigned his august office. “We had met on several occasions,” Wachtler wrote, “and the summer before last, we both were given doctoral degrees at Claremont College in California. Blackmun was now honoring me by visiting me at a federal prison. We embraced on his arrival, and on his departure I wept, remembering what was—and will never be again.”

SOURCE NOTES

To create this narrative, the author interviewed over a hundred people who were either central figures in the story or whose lives intersected with those of the central figures. In addition, the author consulted various legal documents, books, and articles. She was unable to speak with Joy Silverman, who declined repeated requests for an interview.

ABBREVIATIONS

Unless otherwise noted, the interviews were conducted by the author. Frequently cited persons and court documents have been identified by the following abbreviations:

PROLOGUE

pp. 1–2 SW’s telephone call to JS: Appendix to Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

pp. 2–3 Conversation between Chertoff and Ashrafi: Interview with Michael Chertoff, Apr. 12, 1993.

pp. 3–4 SW’s call: Appendix to Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 4 “Joy was shaking”: Interview with William R. Fleming, Jr., Oct. 21, 1993.

pp. 5–6 SW’s call: Appendix to Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 6 “‘There’s been another call’” to “arresting the chief judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York”: Interview with Michael Chertoff, Apr. 12, 1993.

p. 6 “When he landed in Denver”: Interview with William R. Fleming, Jr., Oct. 19, 1993.

p. 6 SW’s letter: Appendix to Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

pp. 7–8 Joan Wachtler’s experiences on Nov. 7, 1992: Interview with Joan Wachtler, July 16, 1993.

CHAPTER 1

pp. 13–14 SW’s boyhood: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

pp. 14–15 SW at Milford: The Milford Yearbook, June 1947, and interviews with former teachers David Rosenbaum and Jerry Pepper, Mar. 25, 1993 (interviews conducted by Jack Bourque); “nose bobbed”: interviews with two of SW’s classmates, Apr. 6 and 7, 1993 (interviews conducted by Jack Bourque).

p. 15 “Where to go instead?”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 15 “who hailed from Saranac Lake”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 15 “gave birth to a baby girl”: Where? According to the Daily News, in an article dated Nov. 15, 1992, “Silverman has said she was born Apr. 8, 1947, in Newark, N.J., and has identified her father as Ben Fererh. But no record of either fact could be located there.” The same was true of Saranac Lake.

p. 15 “Jeanette was a charmer”: Interview with a friend of Jeanette’s, May 5, 1993.

p. 16 Leon Wolosoff: “Funds for Queens Homes,” New York Times, Oct. 18, 1931; “Goodyear Village Is Sold,” New York Times, July 29, 1944; and obituary of Leon Wolosoff, New York Times, June 8, 1949.

p. 16 Max Blumberg’s career: Obituary of Max Blumberg, New York Times, Nov. 10, 1938.

p. 16 Joan’s nickname: Interview with a camp mate, Dec. 23, 1992.

pp. 16–17 SW’s first dates with Joan: Interviews with Sol and Joan Wachtler, July 16, 1993.

p. 17 Washington and Lee University: Washington and Lee Catalogue for 1951–1952, and Peterson’s Guide to Four-Year Colleges, 1992.

pp. 17–18 SW’s career at Washington and Lee: Interviews with four frat mates of SW’s, Mar. 10 and 17, 1993, and clippings from The Ring-turn Phi, Washington and Lee Semi-Weekly Newspaper, 1947–1952.

pp. 18–19 The Wolosoff brothers: Interviews with Robert Berne, Feb. 8, 1993, and Lester Brooke, Feb. 16, 1993.

p. 19 Nassau County: Stephen Birmingham, The Rest of Us, Little, Brown, 1984. John Clements, New York Facts: A Comprehensive Look at New York Today, County by County, Clements Research II, Inc., 1989. Arturo Gonzalez, Eugene H. Nickerson: Statesman of a New Society, James H. Heineman, Inc., N.Y., 1964. Edward J. Smits, Nassau: Suburbia, U.S.A., Friends of the Nassau County Museum, n.d.

p. 19 Leon Wolosoff’s death: Interview with Lester Brooke, Feb. 16, 1993.

p. 20 real estate “that would one day be worth many millions of dollars”: How many? The New York Times reported in Catherine S. Manegold’s “Judge and Heiress: The Rise and Fall of a Private Affair,” Nov. 15, 1992, that Joan Wachtler became “heir to a $90 million fortune.” Joan Wachtler told the author the figure was vastly exaggerated, but did not provide an alternative figure.

p. 20 “‘Elsie, the delivery boy is here!’”: Interview with Lauren Wachtler, Apr. 9, 1993.

p. 20 “‘She was one of those perfect girls’”: Interview with one of SW’s frat mates, Mar. 17, 1993.

p. 21 SW’s story about “J.C.W.” and the dream: The Ring-turn Phi, Oct. 2, 1951.

p. 21 SW’s story about the kiss: The Ring-turn Phi, Oct. 30, 1951.

p. 21 “he and Joan had not yet had sex together”: Letter, Simring, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 22 The wedding and its antecedents: Interview with Joan and Sol Wachtler, July 16, 1993.

p. 23 “the scholarship drive and her husband”: Sarah Lawrence Yearbook, 1952.

pp. 23–25 The early days of the marriage: Interview with Joan and Sol Wachtler, July 16, 1993.

CHAPTER 2

p. 26 Great Neck: Great Neck Circle magazine, 1950–1952. Dr. Jay Schulman, “The Jews of Great Neck: A Heritage Reaffirmed,” in Ethnicity in Suburbia: The Long Island Experience, ed. by Salvatore J. La Gumina, copyright 1979. This Is Great Neck, published by the League of Women Voters of Great Neck, 1975. Helene Herzig, A Family of Families: Temple Beth-el 1928–1978, Temple Beth-el of Great Neck, 1978.

p. 26 Sylvia Wolosoff: Interview with Amy Osler, Jan. 31, 1993.

p. 27 Bibbs’s dream house: Interviews with Lester Brooke, Feb. 16, 1993, and Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

pp. 27–28 Parties at the Wolosoff mansion and breakup of the couples: Interviews with Gail Rothstein, Feb. 2, 1993, and Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 28 “didn’t … contribute financially” and “had to help him out with money”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 28 Jeanette’s marriage to Germont: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 28 “could barely meet the mortgage payments”: Interview with Helen Cox, Sept. 4, 1993.

p. 28 “working on a contractual basis, she did public relations for the city of Newark”: Interview with Emma Garcia, Dec. 17, 1993 (interview conducted by Jack Bourque).

pp. 29–30 “It was at one of her functions that Bibbs had met her” to “‘I’m all she’s got’”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 30 “They’d done it largely at Bibbs’s urging”: Interview with Joan and Sol Wachtler, July 16, 1993.

p. 30 “One of his favorite sayings was”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 30 FHA investigation of Wolosoff brothers: “Frauds in Selling Home Repair Jobs Under F.H.A. Cited,” New York Times, Aug. 27, 1954.

p. 30 “‘They wanted houses’”: Interview with William Koeppel, Feb. 24, 1993.

pp. 31–32 “Once, Sol even negotiated a land deal for him”: Interview with SW July 16, 1993.

p. 32 “he’d begun to try his hand at politics”: Interview with Joseph P. Carlino, Mar. 10, 1993.

p. 33 “‘Jeanette! Good God, what happened to you?’”: Interview with a friend of Jeanette’s, May 5, 1993.

pp. 33–35 Bibbs and Jeanette: Interviews with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993, Alexander Simons, Mar. 23, 1993, and a friend of Jeanette’s, May 5, 1993.

p. 35 Bibbs “spent over a million and a half dollars on them”: S. Wachtler, Prob. Proc., Wolosoff.

p. 35 Van Wolosoff: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

pp. 35–37 “‘You must be the new Mrs. Wolosoff’s daughter’” to “trying to be just like her mother”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

pp. 37–38 SW as a father: Interview with Lauren Wachtler, Apr. 9, 1993.

p. 38 SW and the North Hempstead Town Council seat fight: Interviews with Joseph P. Carlino, Mar. 10, 1993, and Sol Wachtler, July 16, 1993.

p. 39 “he needed some land rezoned”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 39 “the boy, Bruce, was rumored to be part of a fast crowd”: Interview with Alison Wachtler, May 15, 1993.

p. 39 “‘had this reputation’”: Interview with Joan Wachtler, July 16, 1993.

pp. 39–40 Van and Jeanette: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 40 Bibbs’s molestation of Joy: Interview with Phil Friedman, Aug. 19, 1993.

pp. 40–41 “he and Joy had become lovers”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

pp. 41–42 The relationship between Dick and Jeanette: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

pp. 42–43 The meeting between Clint Martin and David Holman: Interview with a Long Island politician, Apr. 13, 1993.

p. 43 Joy’s relationship with Van: Interviews with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993, and Sol Wachtler, July 16, 1993.

p. 43 Jeanette’s feelings about Van and Jimmy: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 44 Bruce’s adoption: Interview with Richard L. Gold, June 28, 1993.

p. 44 SW’s victory: Interview with Joseph P. Carlino, Mar. 10, 1993.

CHAPTER 3

pp. 45–46 “‘Why didn’t Bibbs adopt you?’ “ to “seduction was second nature to her”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

pp. 46–47 SW decides to run against Nickerson: “G.O.P. in Nassau Picks Candidate,” New York Times, Feb. 24, 1967, “G.O.P. Nominates Its Nassau Slate,” New York Times, Mar. 2, 1967, and interviews with Joseph P. Carlino, Mar. 10, 1993, and another Long Island politician, Apr. 13, 1993.

pp. 47–48 SW at the convention, and Don Kellerman’s advice to him and Joan: CBS Reports: Campaign American Style, CBS television network, 1968.

p. 48 Joan’s activities during the campaign: Interview with Joan Wachtler, July 16, 1993.

p. 49 “she’d made no impression on him”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993. SW reported to the author that although he didn’t recall the first time he met Joy, she well recalled the first time she met him, and even remembered what he was wearing—a suede jacket.

p. 49 “she was impressed with him”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 49 “‘Are you Wachtler?’” Interview with Joan Wachtler, July 16, 1993.

p. 49 “‘It’s a great embarrassment to have to ask friends for money’”: CBS Reports: Campaign American Style, op. cit.

p. 49 SW adept at raising money: “G.O.P. Fund Dinner Held for Nassau Candidate,” New York Times, May 18, 1967.

p. 49 “‘He was the Great White Jewish Hope’”: Interview with Arlene Stang, Feb. 18, 1993.

p. 50 “Sol was using dirty tricks”: “Nickerson Says Rival Uses Fake Campaign Photo,” New York Times, Sept. 29, 1967.

p. 50 “‘a slick, scurrilous campaign’”: “Lefkowitz Asks Poll Fraud Law,” New York Times, Sept. 28, 1967.

p. 50 “One autumn day, he crisscrossed Nassau County with Sol”: “Governor Stumps with Wachtler,” New York Times, Oct. 11, 1967.

p. 50 “he came to a party at Sol’s house”: Interview with Alison Wachtler, May 15, 1993.

pp. 50–51 “accused one of Sol’s chief aides”: “Nassau Democrats Accuse Republican of Attempt to Spy,” New York Times, Oct. 27, 1967.

p. 51 Events on election night: CBS Reports: Campaign American Style, op. cit.

p. 52 “She was a receptionist” to “marrying Dick”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 52 “‘Take on Wolf’”: Interview with Joseph P. Carlino, Mar. 10, 1993.

p. 53 “‘After three years, you’ll be bored or alcoholic’”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

pp. 53–54 “‘I’m not going to be deputy anything’”: Interview with Long Island politician, Apr. 13, 1993.

p. 54 SW and the Nassau Bar Association: “Wachtler to Seek Nassau Judgeship,” New York Times, Dec. 2, 1967; “Wachtler Facing a Judgeship Snag,” New York Times, Dec. 31, 1967; “Wachtler Fails in Nassau Appeal,” New York Times, Jan. 7, 1968.

p. 54 “Up in Albany, Rockefeller was enraged”: Interview with Long Island politician, Apr. 13, 1993.

p. 54 “the question of Sol’s endorsement was sent to the bar association’s board of directors”: Actually, SW had tried to get the board to bypass the judiciary committee earlier, but the board members at first refused. It was only on SW’s second try that they overruled their committee. Interview with Long Island politician, Apr. 13, 1993.

p. 55 “‘I’m not Joy’s father’” and engagement presents: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

pp. 55–56 The engagement party: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993. Simons thought the incident in which Jeanette teased him about SW’s attraction to Joy occurred at his wedding party, but SW told the author he did not attend the wedding, only the engagement party.

pp. 55–56 “‘No one had the right to be that tall’”: Interview with Dottie Bernstein, Feb. 12, 1993.

p. 56 “he would date his first encounter with her to this festive evening”: S. Wachtler, Prob. Proc., Wolosoff.

p. 56 The Florida land: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

pp. 56–57 “he hadn’t given them legal title” to “‘you go ahead and do it’”: Court documents filed in the case of James K. Wolosoff v. Alvin B. Wolosoff et al., dated Aug. 20, 1975, and Apr. 21, 1976.

pp. 57–58 Joy and Dick Simons’s honeymoon: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 58 Madame Germont: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

pp. 58–59 “‘I used to send him a hundred dollars here, fifty dollars there’”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 59 “The poor kid, he would tell himself” to “she never spoke to her father again”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

CHAPTER 4

p. 60 The stenographer: Interview with court stenographer Arnold Cohen, Mar. 15, 1993.

p. 60 SW’s career as a trial judge in Mineola: Interview with Judge Joseph Bellacosa, May 18, 1993.

pp. 60–64 “asked Bibbs to set up Dick” to “one of the most fashionable apartment buildings in Palm Beach”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 64 “The kids had always come to him, not Joan”: Interviews with Lauren Wachtler, Apr. 9, 1993, and Joan and Sol Wachtler, July 16, 1993.

pp. 64–65 Margiotta: “Nassau Republicans March to Beat of Powerful Drumming by Margiotta,” New York Times, Dec. 8, 1972.

p. 65 “The party needed help”: Interviews with Victor Kovner, Feb. 1, 1993, and Judge Milton Mollen, Feb. 19, 1993. “Feud of Esposito and Troy Annuls Judgeship Pact,” New York Times, Mar. 3, 1972.

p. 65 “Generally, court of appeals seats weren’t contested”: Today in New York State, court of appeals judges are appointed by the governor. SW’s campaign was an important factor in the change.

p. 65 SW would have four hundred thousand dollars to spend on television ads: “Nassau Republicans March to Beat of Powerful Drumming by Margiotta,” New York Times, Dec. 8, 1972.

pp. 65–66 Palm Beach: Charlotte Curtis, The Rich and Other Atrocities, Harper & Row, 1976; Murray Weiss and Bill Hoffman, Palm Beach Babylon, Birch Lane Press, 1992.

p. 66 “as one writer put it”: Tom Buckley, “Palm Beach Is …,” The New York Times Magazine, Mar. 21, 1971.

p. 67 “‘found out finally what was expected of her’”: Ibid.

p. 67 JS tears up a gown: Interview with an old family friend, Feb. 12, 1993.

pp. 67–69 “But gradually, after Joy met and became friendly with several young women” to “Once, a Steuben-glass vase”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 69 “dialed Gucci in Milan”: Interview with Alexander Simons, Mar. 23, 1993.

p. 70 SW “needed to do something to focus attention on himself”: Interview with Bob Kaufman, Feb. 24, 1993.

p. 70 “a different direction for his commercials”: Interview with Sheila Kelley, May 6, 1993.

p. 70 “When the commercial was aired”: “Guides Set Forth on Judicial Race,” New York Times, Apr. 15, 1972.

p. 70 “he began to have second thoughts”: “Wachtler Drops a TV Commercial,” New York Times, Oct. 30, 1972.

p. 71 “‘Sol has to sit there in that judgeship’”: “Nassau Republicans March to Beat of Powerful Drumming by Margiotta,” New York Times, Dec. 8, 1972.

pp. 71–73 “‘We should never have left St. Pete’” to “leaving all their financial obligations in his lap”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 73 “‘My childhood growing up’” and “‘My life is like a soap opera’”: Brian Kates, “Joy’s Search for Happiness,” Daily News, Nov. 15, 1992.

pp. 73–74 “Joy was on Bibbs’s side in the disputes” to “‘May the man who’s right win’”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 74 SW “cast an enormous shadow”: Interview with Alison Wachtler, May 15, 1993.

p. 75 Joan gives up political work, decides to study social work: Interview with Joan Wachtler, July 16, 1993.

pp. 75–76 “the abortion required an operation” to “he was busy with his litigation with Bibbs”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 76 David Paul: “More Crimes of the ’80s,” Newsweek, Dec. 6, 1993. Myra MacPherson, “David Paul and his CenTrust S&L,” Washington Post, Mar. 19, 1990. Peter Becker, “David Paul Had a Great Fall,” M, Inc., Mar. 1991. Interview with Larry Weisman, May 23, 1993. Note: Paul was convicted in late 1993 of more than sixty counts of fraud.

p. 77 Paul’s deposition: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

p. 77 JS marries David Paul in a Las Vegas wedding parlor: “Joy’s Search for Happiness,” Kates, Daily News, Nov. 15, 1992. The description of the parlor is drawn from “Marrying Absurd,” in Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Simon & Schuster, Touchstone ed., 1979.

p. 78 JS’s call to Simons from Las Vegas: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

CHAPTER 5

p. 79 “Whatever passion had once existed between them had begun to evaporate”: Letter, Simring, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 79 “sex was apparently not a high priority” to “passion for worldly success”: Interview with a longtime friend of SW’s, Mar. 29, 1993.

p. 80 SW’s most important early decisions on court of appeals, and SW’s behavior toward friends and lawyers: Interview with Mike Traynor, June 12, 1993.

pp. 81–82 “He especially liked tricking Jacob Fuchsberg” to “never gave adultery a thought”: Interview with a member of SW’s staff, June 8, 1993.

p. 82 “‘If I’d lived with him two days, I’d never have married him’”: Interview with an intimate of JS’s, Oct. 28, 1993.

p. 82 “within two months of the wedding ceremony, they got an annulment in the Dominican Republic”: Daily News, Nov. 15, 1992, and interview with Helen Cox, Sept. 4, 1993.

p. 83 “Six months later, Joy began to be seen with a friend of Paul’s”: Daily News, Nov. 15, 1992.

p. 83 Jeffrey Silverman’s early career: Ibid.

p. 83 “haggle over the terms of a divorce”: Ibid.

p. 83 Joan Wachtler goes back to school: Letter from Joan Wachtler to Judge Anne Thompson, n.d., and interview with Joan Wachtler, July 16, 1993.

p. 83 Joan’s internship: “Joan Wachtler to Head Women for Purcell,” Great Neck News, 1981.

pp. 83–84 Dick Simons wins lawsuit: Interviews with Dick Simons, Mar. 21 and June 3, 1993.

pp. 84–85 James Wolosoff sues Bibbs: Court documents filed in the case of James K. Wolosoff v. Alvin B. Wolosoff, et al., dated Aug. 20, 1975, and Apr. 12 and 21, 1976.

pp. 85–86 Allen H. Weiss tries to settle the suit: Interviews with Allen H. Weiss, Feb. 9 and Mar. 4, 1993.

pp. 86–87 Bibbs “rued the day that Jimmy had ever been conceived”: Probate Proceeding, Will of Alvin B. Wolosoff, Nov. 8, 1985.

p. 87 Bibbs cuts Jimmy out of his will: Interviews with Allen H. Weiss, Feb. 9 and Mar. 4, 1993.

pp. 87–88 SW considers running for governor in 1978 to “He had so many IOUs out around the state”: “Judicious Reluctance,” New York Times, Apr. 10, 1977.

p. 88 “He has to be fed constantly with applause and admiration”: Interview with a member of SW’s staff, June 8, 1993.

p. 88 “‘the computer baby’”: Interview with an intimate of JS’s, Oct. 28, 1993.

p. 89 “he and Joy talked for a while” to “let her know, in no uncertain terms, that she wasn’t his type”: Interview with an acquaintance of JS’s, Aug. 1, 1993.

p. 89 “‘There’s always Macbeth’”: “Judge Tries Anew to Spell Out Initial Protest,” New York Times, Mar. 31, 1979.

p. 90 “‘They know you, and they still want you’”: Interview with a longtime friend of SW’s, Mar. 29, 1993.

p. 90 Bontscha Schvaig: Interview with Mike Traynor, June 12, 1993.

p. 90 “threaten to report him to the IRS”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 91 “‘too bad we can’t kill Bibbs’”: Interview with a friend of JS’s, July 29, 1993.

p. 91 “Joy put a memorial announcement in the Times:” Deaths column, New York Times, Oct. 13, 1980.

p. 91 “every year afterward on the anniversary of her death”: Interview with Gail Rothstein, Feb. 3, 1993.

p. 91 “played poker together” to “good candidate”: Mario Cuomo, The Diaries of Mario M. Cuomo, Random House, 1984, pp. 65–66.

pp. 91–92 SW’s judicial opinions: Interview with Mike Traynor, June 12, 1993.

p. 92 “‘It grows in slums’”: Speech given by SW before the Albany Bar Association in Dec. 1980.

p. 92 “‘The greatest responsibility for our national welfare’”: Speech given by SW before the Judicial Section of the New York State Bar Association, Jan. 24, 1981.

p. 93 “They had stopped altogether”: Letter, Simring, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 93 “‘made a play for me’”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 93 “Albany waitress named Dorothy”: Interview with an intimate of JS’s, Oct. 28, 1993.

p. 94 Fuchsberg and the Century Club: Interview with a member of SW’s staff, June 8, 1993.

p. 94 SW didn’t want the stress and strain of running: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 94 “The old Nassau power broker had been indicted”: “Margiotta and Ex-Judge Indicted in Alleged L.I. Insurance Fraud,” New York Times, Nov. 25, 1980. Margiotta was eventually convicted and served one year of a two-year jail term.

p. 94 “‘Why does my high-minded friend’”: Interview with a longtime friend of SW’s, Mar. 29, 1993.

p. 94 “no intention of running”: “Four Judges Take the Stand as Witnesses for Margiotta,” New York Times, Apr. 17, 1981.

p. 94 “the gossip in Albany”: Interview with a New York politician, Feb. 19, 1993.

pp. 95–96 Honey Wolosoff: Interview with Lauren Wachtler, Apr. 9, 1993.

CHAPTER 6

p. 97 Bibbs’s will: The Last Will and Testament of Alvin B. Wolosoff, July 14, 1982.

p. 97 “‘Did he love my mother?’” Interview with Helen Cox, Sept. 4, 1993.

p. 98 Bibbs lent Jeffrey money for stocks: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 98 Ply-Gem becomes a major company: “Strong Finish in ’85,” Barron’s Investment News & Views, Sept. 9, 1985. “A Do-It-Yourself Supplier That’s Built a Following,” Business Week, July 11, 1988. “Improving Homes, Improving Minds,” Management Review, Dec. 1988.

p. 98 “Sol, inviting Van to his chambers” to “‘all I want’”: S. Wachtler, Prob. Proc., Wolosoff.

p. 98 ‘“ If you give her a million dollars today’”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 99 Bibbs’s death: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 22, 1993.

p. 99 Bibbs’s funeral and Sol’s subsequent conversation with Joy: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 99 “small talk … about her astrologist”: Interview with Alison Wachtler, May 15, 1993.

p. 100 Serious consideration given to only SW and Milton Mollen (recently the head of the Mollen Commission, investigating police corruption in NYC): “The Making of a Chief Judge,” New York Times, Jan. 6, 1985, and interview with a former adviser to Governor Cuomo, Feb. 25, 1993.

p. 100 “choosing Sol would make Cuomo look good”: Interview cited in preceding note.

p. 100 Governor Cuomo’s explanation of why he selected SW as chief judge: Radio interview on the show “Capitol Connection,” Jan. 2, 1985.

pp. 100–01 Joy’s activities: Interviews with Phil Friedman, Aug. 19, 1993, and a Nightingale-Bamford mother, Aug. 20, 1993. “Envoys Without Experience,” Washington Post, July 18, 1989.

p. 100 “‘There are a lot of things I want that I don’t have’”: Interview with Kathryn O. Greenberg, Aug. 2, 1993.

pp. 101–02 Joy’s reluctance to have Honey be cotrustee of her trust: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 102 “‘I think Jeffrey’s fooling around’”: Interview with Kathryn O. Greenburg, Aug. 2, 1993.

p. 103 “dreamed up a way to make Joy even happier”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 103 Joy asks for assistance and advice: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 103 “her darling little bichon frise”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993. Interestingly, at one point during the interview, when SW mentioned the bichon frise, Joan Wachtler said wryly, “We always had dogs. But we had a beagle and a St. Bernard.”

p. 104 SW makes suggestions to Joy about her future: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

pp. 104–05 “Weiss thought they had a chance” to “any litigation in the state could potentially end up there”: Interviews with Allen H. Weiss, Feb. 9 and Mar. 4, 1993.

p. 105 SW volunteered that he’d not only checked the law but asked his colleagues on the court of appeals whether they thought he ought to disqualify himself: Newsday, which investigated this assertion after SW’s arrest, reported that “five of six colleagues” said that “he had never mentioned it to them.” Cited by Eric Pooley in “Crazy for You,” New York Magazine, Dec. 14, 1992.

p. 106 “Wachtler was using the politically powerful firm Shea and Gould” to “they would be based on monomania”: Interviews with Allen H. Weiss, Feb. 9 and Mar. 4, 1993. S. Wachtler, Prob. Proc., Wolosoff.

p. 107 “‘Evan! Hey, Evan!’” to “Made him stop running”: Interview with Dick Simons, Mar. 21, 1993.

pp. 107–08 “received a call from Judge Radigan” to “not as completely as he had planned”: Interviews with Allen H. Weiss, Feb. 9 and Mar. 4, 1993.

p. 108 Joy and Sol discuss her getting a job with the mayor: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 108 SW’s house in Albany: Interview with Alison Wachtler, May 15, 1993. Letter from Joan Wachtler to Judge Anne Thompson, n.d.

p. 108 “Gardening became his passion”: Interview with Phil Friedman, Aug. 19, 1993.

p. 109 Joy sends gift basket to SW: Interview with Joan Wachtler, July 16, 1993.

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pp. 113–15 SW speaks at a luncheon held by the Long Island Association to “He gave her his … credit card number”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 115 “It’s as if … Joy’s a little girl playing dress-up”: Interview with the wife of a close friend of George Bush, Mar. 16, 1993.

pp. 115–16 JS visits the court of appeals: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 116 “‘I never—never with one exception, [that] woman in upstate New York’”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993. It is possible that the woman in question was a waitress in Albany named Dorothy. The author was told during an interview with a person close to JS that while Jeanette was still alive, SW had had some sort of sexual or romantic relationship with an Albany waitress named Dorothy and that Elsie Wolosoff had passed the news along to Jeanette, who had gossiped about it with JS.

pp. 116–20 “‘I thought we were going to have dinner alone’” to “he let Joy and Paola check out of the Susse Chalet and move into his farmhouse”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993. Note that Dr. Simring, the psychiatrist who examined SW for the prosecution, dates the first kiss to Oct. 4, 1987, whereas the author dates it to early in 1987. This is because SW remembered firmly during the author’s interview with him that the first time he and JS touched was at his Long Island Association appearance during the blizzard, which occurred on Jan. 22, 1987, and said that Joy’s trip to Albany came “shortly afterward,” and their first night together “about two weeks later.” The author believes her date is more accurate than Dr. Simring’s because at the time SW was interviewed by Simring, he was, according to his own psychiatrist, confused about time and became more accurate as the months passed.

p. 120 “Joy introduced Sol to a whole new world of sexuality … that made intercourse seem dull and pedestrian”: Letter, Simring, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 120 “A state commission on judicial conduct had recommended to Sol that the judge … be removed from the bench” to “Gelfand announced that he would appeal”: “Bronx Judge Vows He’ll Fight Panel’s Verdict for Removal,” Newsday, Mar. 27, 1987. “State Court Suspends Gelfand—With Pay,” Newsday, Apr. 28, 1987.

pp. 120–22 Gelfand’s meeting with SW: Interviews with Judge Bertram Gelfand, Sept. 22 and Nov. 14, 1993.

p. 122 “They saw each other once every other week” to “one weekend a month together”: Cindy Adams, “Dad Gets the Rap for the Way Joy ‘Destroys’ Men,” New York Post, Sept. 10, 1993.

p. 122 Joan’s resentment: Letter of Joan Wachtler to Judge Anne Thompson, n.d.

pp. 122–23 “She’s got some temper” to “‘There’s a lot of history there’”: Interview with a member of SW’s staff, June 8, 1993.

p. 123 “‘Go over to the Bush for President headquarters’” to “‘Bush supporter’”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

pp. 123–24 JS’s activities at campaign headquarters: Pooley, “Crazy for You,” New York Magazine, Dec. 14, 1992.

p. 124 “‘She’s a snake’”: A Bush campaign staffer quoted in “Joy’s Search for Happiness,” Daily News, Nov. 15, 1992.

p. 124 “‘She’s pushy … eye toward an appointment’”: Interview with the wife of one of Bush’s financial advisers, Mar. 8, 1993.

p. 124 “‘She sucked him up for one thousand dollars’”: Julie Wadler, as quoted in Pooley, “Crazy for You,” New York Magazine, Dec. 14, 1992.

p. 124 “‘It was a pleasure to meet you at lunch’” to “‘It’s always a delight to talk to someone who’s so well informed’”: These are prototypical letters. The quotations are based on those in actual letters shown to the author by SW on July 16, 1993.

pp. 124–25 “‘I read your interesting and inspiring closing statement’”: From a letter written to Angier Biddle Duke by SW and signed by JS. Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 125 The “You done good” letter: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 125 JS’s meeting with Lawrence Bathgate: Interviews with Lawrence Bathgate, Mar. 2 and 3, 1993.

p. 125 “‘How much do you love me?’”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 126 “training in such fields isn’t necessary. Nor is a license”: Note that the state of New York has held numerous hearings in an attempt to establish legislative licensing procedures for psychotherapists, but the effort has not proved successful.

p. 126 JS leaned on Eleanor Sloan: Interview with Phil Friedman, Aug. 19, 1993.

pp. 126–27 SW goes to see Sloan: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 127 “She had told him the sexual predilections of all her husbands”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

pp. 127–28 “She told him, too, about her relationship with her stepbrother” to “getting close to five million dollars for it”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 128 The LIU dinner: Interview with Joan Wachtler, July 16, 1993.

p. 129 SW addresses a group of businessmen in Albany: “‘The Wachtler-Cuomo Show’ Knocks ’Em Dead in Albany,” New York Law Journal, Mar. 28, 1988.

p. 129 JS holds fund-raiser in Southampton: Interview with one of the guests, Mar. 8, 1993.

p. 130 “‘It was intimate, that was the wonderful part of it’” and “‘It was the single most successful party’”: “In New Orleans, the Grand Old Parties,” Washington Post, Aug. 15, 1988.

p. 130 JS makes speech at the Harmonie Club: Interview with William Koeppel, Feb. 24, 1993.

pp. 130–31 SW suggests to JS that she try for an ambassadorship: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 131 “afraid that being identified as pro-choice would harm her chances … both financially and ideologically”: Interviews with Tania Melich, Feb. 18 and Dec. 10, 1993.

pp. 131–32 JS promotes SW for Supreme Court: Interview with William Koeppel, Feb. 24, 1993.

pp. 132–33 SW writes sample questions: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 133 Jeffrey Silverman visits Barbados: “Envoys Without Experience: Bush Favors GOP Donors as Ambassadors,” Washington Post, July 18, 1989.

pp. 133–34 JS in Albany: Interview with a member of SW’s staff, June 8, 1993.

pp. 134–36 “Was Joy in love with him?” to “the pinnacle of their love”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

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p. 137 “‘I love George Bush’”: Interview with a Nightingale-Bamford mother, Aug. 20, 1993.

p. 137 “a ‘major exhibit … wealth given freely to the GOP’”: “Envoys Without Experience: Bush Favors GOP Donors as Ambassadors,” Washington Post, July 18, 1989.

pp. 137–38 “‘I’m caught in a web in Washington’” to “deeply touched by her predicament”: Interview with Phil Friedman, Aug. 19, 1993.

pp. 139–40 “I’m lying here in a pool of blood” to “guilt and self-loathing”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 140 “blamed Sol for her defeat”: Interview with a friend of JS’s, July 29, 1993.

p. 141 “‘It’s absolutely untrue’”: Interview with Jeffrey Silverman, Mar. 24, 1994.

p. 141 “She said to Sheresky”: Interview with Norman Sheresky, Mar. 26, 1993.

p. 141 “Joy began to urge Sol to marry her”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

pp. 141–42 Bush’s Jan. 2, 1990 letter to JS: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 142 “‘The courts are not for raising revenue’”: “Judge Assails Cuomo,” Newsday, Feb. 22, 1990.

p. 142 “‘I differ with the chief judge on fees’” to “‘can’t do it this year’”: Gary Spencer, “Cuomo, Wachtler See Improved Dialogue,” New York Law Journal, Mar. 14, 1990.

p. 142 “The scuttlebutt in Albany”: Interview with Phil Friedman, Aug. 26, 1993.

p. 142 “‘There are differences’”: Gary Spencer, “Cuomo, Wachtler See Improved Dialogue,” New York Law Journal, Mar. 14, 1990.

p. 143 Joy “expected gems” to “gone to Morty to make his purchases”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 143 Dinner in Greenwich Village: Interview with Phil Friedman, Aug. 19, 1993.

pp. 143–44 Dinner at Elaine’s: Interview with Norman Sheresky, Mar. 26, 1993.

pp. 144–45 “There was someone else who knew” to “didn’t know what to believe”: Interview with Lauren Wachtler, Apr. 9, 1993.

p. 145 “‘The cases on Tuesday were pretty good’”: SW, “Yes, Jessica, There Are ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Lawyers,” New York Law Journal, May 1, 1990.

p. 145 “She was an easy child to be fond of to “tranquil as a summer’s day”: Interview with Phil Friedman, Aug. 19, 1993.

p. 145 “Sol sometimes daydreamed” to “wavered about their summer plans”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 146 “fears of ending up husbandless”: Interview with a friend of JS’s, July 29, 1993.

p. 146 “promised her that he would leave Joan on Labor Day weekend”: Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

pp. 146–47 “Joan Wachtler went to the wedding” to “‘Not nearly as pretty as she used to be’”: Interview with Joan Wachtler, July 16, 1993.

pp. 147–48 SW’s supposed brain tumor: Information about the brain tumor is drawn from the Sentencing Memorandum prepared by Michael Chertoff in USA v. Sol Wachtler, and from interview with SW, July 16, 1993. Note that SW eventually learned that the cause of his symptoms was a herniated disk.

p. 148 Elizabeth Racine: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

pp. 148–49 “Sol’s reports to Joy about his brain tumor” to “medical problems alone anymore”: Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 149 “the sex between them was still intense”: Letter, Simring, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 149 “‘I cannot escape the feeling … any given time’”: Letter written by SW to a Yale student, quoted in Manegold, “Judge and Heiress: The Rise and Fall of a Private Affair,” New York Times, Nov. 15, 1992.

p. 150 “Tenuate could produce” to “‘indistinguishable from schizophrenia’”: Physicians’ Desk Reference, 47th edition, Medical Economics Data, 1993.

pp. 150–51 “‘You gotta find me a woman’” to “‘I’ll look around’”: Interview with Lawrence Bathgate, Mar. 3, 1993.

p. 151 “He seemed present but not present” to “‘He isn’t with the rest of us’”: Interview with Republican party contributor, July 11, 1993.

p. 151 “‘It’s not so much fun to travel with him’” to “‘killing myself at work’”: Interview with John Maguire, Mar. 30, 1993.

p. 152 JS at White House dinner: Interview with the theatrical agent who accompanied her, July 6, 1993.

pp. 152–53 “girlfriend of … George Bush” to “‘I’m not his social secretary’”: Interview with William Koeppel, Feb. 24, 1993.

pp. 153–54 “‘You’ve got to find me a man’” to “put her number aside”: Interview with Lawrence Bathgate, Mar. 3, 1993.

p. 154 “‘I can’t leave your mother’” to “‘make your own decision’”: Interview with Lauren Wachtler, Apr. 9, 1993.

p. 154 “‘I had the feeling you were going to dump me’”: Letter, Simring, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 154 “had the idea that Joy hated him” to “‘love anyone the way I love you’”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993. Letter, Simring, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

pp. 154–55 “presumably a few days after Joy’s night in Philadelphia with Sol”: The author was unable to establish the exact date. It could have been before or after the night in Philadelphia.

p. 155 “‘You’re probably already busy’” to “‘they were in love’”: Interview with Lawrence Bathgate, Mar. 3, 1993.

p. 155 “‘Tough duty!’” to “made the President guffaw”: Interview with Lawrence Bathgate, Mar. 3, 1993.

pp. 155–56 “They met for dinner” to “his loss seemed immeasurable”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993. Letter, Simring, Sent. Memo of U.S.

p. 156 “the last time he’d tried to reach him, Cuomo had directed”: “Gov, Chief Judge Face Off,” Daily News, Sept. 26, 1991.

p. 157 “That afternoon, he filed his lawsuit”: Note that the lawsuit was dropped in January 1992 when Governor Cuomo promised an extra $19 million for the state’s courts in the next year. Wachtler rehired the people who’d been fired and reopened the closed courts. “Top Judge Ends Feud with Gov.,” Newsday, Jan. 17, 1992.

p. 157 “he seemed manic”: This was the author’s reaction to his televised appearances at the time of the suit.

p. 157 “‘He could not stay seated’” to “‘pound law books’”: Robin Pogrebin, “Cuomo Against Wachtler: A Feud Among Friends,” New York Observer, Oct. 21, 1991. Interestingly, Pogrebin also observed that “When discussing the current dispute, Judge Wachtler sounds somewhat like a spurned lover, forced to wait by the telephone.”

p. 158 “Joan was different” to “cuddle the baby”: Interview with Randa Pittel, Mar. 8, 1993.

pp. 158–60 “‘Where are you?’” to “She didn’t want to see him again”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993, and Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 160 “‘David’s handsomer than you’” to “‘earns five times as much money as you’”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 160 SW stopped eating: Letter of Joan Wachtler to Judge Anne Thompson, n.d.

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p. 163 “‘Something is terribly wrong [with Sol]’” to “‘drug-related?’”: Joan Wachtler’s diary, as quoted in Stillman, Sent. Memo. of SW.

p. 164 “He’d be stigmatized, like poor Tom Eagleton”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993. In 1972, Senator Thomas Eagleton was dropped as the Democrats’ vice presidential candidate after word leaked out that he’d been treated for manic-depressive illness.

pp. 164–65 “‘He’s done bad, bad things’” to “mortgage had recently been paid off”: Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S. and interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

pp. 165–66 “‘Sol’s harassing me’” to “‘She’s crazy’”: Interview with Norman Sheresky, Mar. 26, 1993.

pp. 166–67 “The first person to whom he pretended” to “Elaine wouldn’t do it”: Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

pp. 167–68 Joan calls Dr. Lanman: Letter, Miller, Sent. Memo. of SW.

pp. 168–69 “‘Where did Jessica spend her Thanksgiving?’” to “‘I wonder how long that will last’”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 169 “‘five years ago a friend’”: Letter of SW dated Dec. 18, 1991. Appendix to Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 170 SW gives tribute to Charles Breitel: Videotape of opening session of the court of appeals, Jan. 7, 1992.

pp. 170–71 SW’s cards and calls: Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S. and Appendix.

p. 172 SW’s trip to Florida: Letter, Miller, Sent. Memo. of SW.

pp. 172–74 SW’s cards: Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S. and Appendix.

p. 174 SW’s call to Sheresky: Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 175 SW’s cards: Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 175 “Joy had intercepted this perversion”: Interview with William R. Fleming, Jr., Oct. 21, 1993.

p. 176 SW’s letters: Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 176 “Joy, when she heard about the letter”: Interview with Norman Sheresky, Feb. 8, 1994.

p. 177 SW tells jokes at the LCA dinner: “The Talk of the Town,” The New Yorker, Apr. 26, 1993.

pp. 177–79 SW and JS’s telephone conversation: Stillman, Sent. Memo. of SW and interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

pp. 180–81 SW’s letter: Appendix to Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 181 “talked to Sheresky and consulted private investigators”: Interview with Norman Sheresky, Oct. 4, 1993.

p. 182 “A colleague” to “pharmaceutical manufacturer”: Add., Frosch and Miller, Sent. Memo. of SW.

pp. 182–83 SW’s letters: Appendix to Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

pp. 183–84 Eleanor Sloan calls SW: Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

pp. 184–85 “she’d go to the FBI” to “He seemed as genial as ever”: Interviews with Norman Sheresky, Mar. 26 and June 13, 1993.

pp. 185–86 “He had called the information operator in Linden” to “‘give the letter all the right meaning’”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

pp. 186–90 SW’s letters: Appendix to Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 190 “Joan Wachtler, who knew nothing” to “call the guests and apologize”: “Attorney Work Product” prepared by the office of Charles Stillman.

pp. 190–91 SW’s card and letter: Appendix to Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

p. 191 “‘I’ve got to dispel this notion’”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 192 SW dresses as “Purdy”: Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S., and Letter, Miller, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

pp. 192–93 “By the end of August” to “‘get me out of your life’”: Appendix to Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S. and interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

pp. 193–94 “advised all her friends” to “did not make him rethink his plan”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

p. 195 “‘Sessions got the call [to see her] from Bush’”: Interview with SW, July 16, 1993.

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pp. 196–97 “Carrie Brzezinski, special agent” to “private investigator anywhere in Texas with the name David Purdy”: Interview with Carrie Brzezinski and William R. Fleming, Jr., Mar. 31, 1993, and interview with William R. Fleming, Jr., Oct. 19, 1993.

p. 197 “‘You could set a bomb off in the courtroom and I might not know it’”: Gay Jervey, “An Off-Broadway Star,” The American Lawyer, Oct. 1992.

pp. 197–98 “Chertoff already had a glancing familiarity” to “‘trap and trace the calls’”: Interviews with Michael Chertoff, Apr. 12 and Oct. 20, 1993.

pp. 198–99 “Brzezinski and Fleming had already begun following up” to “becoming tearful or angry”: Interviews with William R. Fleming, Jr., Oct. 19 and 21, 1993.

p. 200 SW’s call: Appendix to Chertoff, Sent. Memo. of U.S.

pp. 200–01 “Chertoff sat down with Ashrafi” to “‘would I agree to arrest him’”: Interview with Michael Chertoff, Apr. 12, 1993.

p. 201