federal judge Harold Tyler, Jr. (Kasindorf, 1989). Tyler acted as a mentor for United States Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, who, in turn, had his eyes on Mayor Koch's job; a campaign he was eventually to wage, and was eventually to lose but not to Ed Koch. In its apparent determination to 4find Myerson guilty, the Tyler Commission accepted questionable testimony, and made inferences from testimony in questionable ways, which were found to be unacceptable in the actual trial (Kasindorf, 1989).
While Tyler and Giuliani may have had their own axe to grind in the Myerson affair, Koch was not without culpability. He had long recognized that Myerson had psychological problems, and that she was not a popular administrator with city employees (Morrisroe, 1988). Nevertheless, Koch felt that he owed a political debt to Myerson for her assistance in his initial election to the job of mayor. Thus, she was appointed as cultural affairs commissioner. Of this appoi
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