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- The psychologizing of crime. Leonard, John // U.S. News & World Report;12/7/92, Vol. 113 Issue 22, p22
Discusses the piece written by John Money, a prominent sexologist and medical psychologist, in `New York Newsday' last week, concerning the case of Sol Wachtler, the chief judge of New York State's highest court. Wachtler was arrested for extortion and threatening to kidnap the 14-year-old...
- A real home court advantage. Denworth, L. // Newsweek;10/21/1991, Vol. 118 Issue 17, p59
States that Sol Wachtler, chief judge of the state of New York, took the extraordinary step last month of suing Gov. Mario Cuomo in state court for non support. Wachtler needed more money to run the state's enormous, but overburdened judicial system but Cuomo had other priorities. Their...
- The strange case of Judge Wachtler. Gelman, David; Miller, Susan // Newsweek;11/23/1992, Vol. 120 Issue 21, p34
Offers a look at the strange case of Judge Sol Wachtler, a tale of love gone sour, threats and blackmail. Focuses around Joy Silverman and her 14-year-old daughter; Telephone threats; FBI linked the electronically disguised voice to Wachtler; Wachtler's resignation from the position of chief...
- Judging Wachtler. // Long Island Business News (7/1993 to 5/2009);08/10/98, Vol. 45 Issue 32, p5A
Speculates on the cause of the downfall of former New York State Chief Judge Sol Wachtler.
- There goes the judge. // Time;11/23/1992, Vol. 140 Issue 21, p20
Announces the arrest of now-resigned New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Sol Wachtler, 62, on charges of blackmail and attempted extortion following a seven week FBI investigation. He is accused of bombarding his ex-mistress Joy Silverman, 45,with a lengthy series of anonymous letters and...
- Crazy for you. Pooley, Eric // New York;12/14/92, Vol. 25 Issue 49, p34
Presents an article about the chief judge, the Park Avenue princess, and passion run amok. How Republican fund-raiser Joy Silverman and her teenage daughter were being threatened; The demand of $20,000 for compromising photographs of Joy; Her involvement with chief judge of the New York Supreme...
- Wachtler plea. Reske, Henry J. // ABA Journal;Jul93, Vol. 79 Issue 7, p37
Reports on former New York Court of Appeals chief judge Sol Wachtler's plea of guilt to a felony count. Threatening to kidnap his former lover's daughter; Mental illness; Expected sentence; Reaction of colleagues.
- To catch a judge: How the F.B.I. tracked Sol Wachtler. Franks, Lucinda // New Yorker;12/21/92, Vol. 68 Issue 44, p58
Explains how the Federal Bureau of Investigation successfully tracked a series of phone calls, obscene letters and cards to New York State Supreme Court Judge Sol Wachtler, who had been sexually harassing his former mistress, Joy Silverman, a prominent fund-raiser for President George Bush's...
- Mad money. // New Yorker;4/19/93, Vol. 69 Issue 9, p36
Discusses the continuing conflict involving the case of former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Sol Wachtler who pleaded guilty in Federal Court in New Jersey on April 1, 1993 to threatening to kidnap the fourteen-year-old daughter of Joy Silverman, his former lover. Judge...
