Sheldon Silver Found Guilty

[hrmjustin]

Jaime Fuller


A jury found Assemblyman Sheldon Silver — for years one of the most well-known and powerful legislators in Albany — guilty on all seven counts Monday afternoon. The 71-year-old Lower East Side Democrat was hit with federal corruption charges — including bribery, extortion, and money laundering — earlier this year after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara accused him of obtaining "approximately $4 million in payments characterized as attorney referral fees solely through the corrupt use of his official position [as Speaker]."

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/11/sheldon-silver-found-guilty.html

[2naSalit]

1. As big as this is

it's still a very small drop in a large bucket. Still, it's a good thing.

[LiberalElite]

2. I'm not surprised-

Silver's defense seemed to be: "Everybody does it."

[Historic NY]

3. Now onto the other idiot Skelos & Son....

at this rate maybe people will quit rather than waiting for the hammer to fall on them.