Robert Moses committed perjury when he denied receiving the Goldsmith memorandum

Evidence

And when Moses, ordered to appear, finally took the stand, he did not make an impressive witness. Testifying under oath, he swore that he had never been advised by anyone that the Taylor Estate appropriation would be illegal unless the Legislature segregated money for it. Had he not been advised precisely that several times, Tuttle demanded—orally and in a written memorandum—by Deputy State Attorney General Irving I. Goldsmith? No, Moses said. Tuttle thereupon produced the Goldsmith memorandum and waved it in front of Moses as he sat on the witness chair. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 896

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Moses’ falsified hearing transcripts failed to deceive officials who had followed the actual hearings — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 839; Moses’s evasive answers revealed he knew the appropriation was unlawful — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 835

Broader Connections

• Moses’s evasive answers revealed he knew the appropriation was unlawful #corroborates (0.78) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 835