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.