Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
Who is the chief judge of New York’s highest court (and a onetime rising political star some pegged as a future governor) who gave the American legal lexicon one of its most enduring lines: that a prosecutor could get a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich”? Not long after, he was arrested by the FBI, pleaded guilty, and went to federal prison himself.
Hint: His quip was immortalized in a Tom Wolfe novel about 1980s New York. What brought him down was a harassment campaign against a former lover.
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Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
Who is the chief judge of New York’s highest court (and a onetime rising political star some pegged as a future governor) who gave the American legal lexicon one of its most enduring lines: that a prosecutor could get a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich”? Not long after, he was arrested by the FBI, pleaded guilty, and went to federal prison himself.
Hint: His quip was immortalized in a Tom Wolfe novel about 1980s New York. What brought him down was a harassment campaign against a former lover.
See the answer on the next page.
