Sheldon Silver, one of the most powerful figures in Albany before his conviction on corruption charges, has died in federal custody.
Sheldon Silver
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Shelly Silver’s sweet gig
The charges in the federal criminal complaint against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver are just shocking. There is “probable cause,” the complaint says, to believe that through bribes, kickbacks, fraud, extortion, and conspiracy, Silver “used the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself millions of dollars masked as legitimate income earned by […]
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Good. Old. Boys.
How wonderful to see so many male politicians standing up for women’s rights. Governor Cuomo has been on a statewide tour, pushing his Women’s Equality Act, which attacks human trafficking, sexual harassment, and employment and housing discrimination. A couple of weeks ago, Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver spoke out at a Women’s Equality Coalition rally in […]
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Cuomo bats leadership ball back to legislators
The New York Post published an article this morning speculating that Governor Andrew Cuomo and his staff want to push Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver out of his leadership post. It also says that Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle could be installed in Silver’s place. According to the Post, Cuomo planned to use last week’s arrests […]
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Morelle gets high-level Assembly post
State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has selected Assembly member Joe Morelle to serve as the chamber’s majority leader. Morelle lives in Irondequoit and his district includes the town, Brighton, and parts of the City of Rochester. He also serves as chair of the Monroe County Democratic Committee. During an interview last week, Morelle said he’d […]
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Vito Lopez, Shelly Silver, and the harassment of women
I feel like I’m reading the same story over and over, just with different perps, different victims, and different kinds of abuse: Jerry Sandusky, Catholic priests, and now Vito Lopez, the New York Assembly member accused of sexually harassing women staff members. And once again, the reaction from higher-ups is to protect the accused. Aren’t […]
