Originally estimated to cost $2.4 million, the government will now spend $5 million to restore the bronzes in time for Independence Day.

The immigrants had been working as fruit pickers in southern Italy, the authorities said, apparently as part of a system of criminal labor trafficking.

Critics say it is unseemly for retired judges to trade on the prestige of their former positions.

In her first public comments on the firing, Ms. Weiss, the CBS News editor in chief, said that the longtime correspondent had “broken” the trust in the newsroom.