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Albany power broker sentenced to 12 years

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Photo of Sheldon Silver after convictions

Sheldon Silver AP photo/Seth Wenig

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a tweet: “Today’s stiff sentence is a just and fitting end to Sheldon Silver’s long career of corruption.”

Sheldon Silver’s ill-gotten riches deserve clawback: Journal News Editorial

“When sentencing Sheldon Silver for his wide-ranging corruption and kickback schemes, U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni went for payback over punishment. She gave the former Assembly Speaker 12 years in prison, though he faced up to 27. Silver, though, has been ordered to forfeit more than $5 million and pay a $1.75 million fine. [Read more…]

Sheldon Silver disbarred

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NYS Three Men in a Room

On Tuesday, March 29, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Siver was disbarred by the Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court in Manhattan. His license to practice law was pulled because of his felony convictions for fraud and extortion, successfully prosecuted by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

Silver is scheduled to be sentenced this month on April 13, the same day that former NYS Senator Dean Skelos will be sentenced. The two who made up 2/3 of Albany’s troika known as the “Three-men-in-a-room” will hear their sentences read in separate courtrooms.

 

Federal Prosecutor Preet Bharara now 8-for-8 in Corridor of Corruption and Three Men in a Room

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NYS Three Men in a Room

The convictions of two of the Three Men in a Room by Federal Prosecutor Preet Bharara took less than two weeks. Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was found guilty last week on all eight counts on which he was charged, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver preceded him on November 30 when he was found guilty of the seven federal corruption charges and expelled from the Assembly. [Read more…]

Politicians and the East Ramapo School District: Profiles in Cowardice

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July 11, 2015  (Contributed by Michael Bongiorno)  In 1957 John F. Kennedy won a Pulitzer Prize for writing Profiles in Courage, a volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United State Senators who did the right thing despite criticism and damage to their political careers.  In New York we have the complete opposite:  “Profiles in Cowardice”, where self-serving politicians do the wrong thing and sacrifice the future of thousands of schoolchildren in order to retain the support of the ultra-religious and electorally powerful bloc vote. [Read more…]