Fogel thereafter entered private practice in Philadelphia until 1973, also serving as a deputy state attorney general of the Pennsylvania Harness Racing Commission from 1963 to 1970.
[2] On February 13, 1973, Fogel was nominated by President Richard Nixon to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania vacated by Judge Ralph C. Body.
Fogel was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 14, 1973, and received his commission on May 15, 1973.
[6] In 1989, Fogel pleaded guilty to four charges of drunk driving, and was sentenced to spend a year at the Talbott/Marsh Recovery Clinic in Atlanta.
[6] Fogel left after only five months, moving to Nashville, Tennessee, where he was eventually jailed as a fugitive and returned to Pennsylvania, to be sentenced to prison.