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USA v. Silver

  1. July 20, 2020

    Sheldon Silver Winds Up With 6½-Year Prison Term

    More than four years after he was first sentenced to 12 years in prison on corruption charges, former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Monday was resentenced to a 6½-year term, in a rejection of his bid for home confinement.

  2. July 17, 2020

    Sheldon Silver Raises COVID-19 Fears Ahead Of Resentencing

    An attorney for Sheldon Silver on Friday voiced concern that the former New York State Assembly speaker could be exposed to COVID-19 at his upcoming sentencing hearing in Manhattan because of a lack of social distancing.

  3. June 18, 2020

    Sheldon Silver Still Deserves 7 Years, Prosecutors Say

    Federal prosecutors on Wednesday urged a Manhattan judge in New York to resentence former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to seven years in prison, notwithstanding the Second Circuit's January decision to reverse parts of Silver's seven-count corruption conviction.

  4. September 17, 2018

    Judge To Sheldon Silver: Your 'Day Of Reckoning' Is Nigh

    The Manhattan federal judge who presided over the trial and retrial of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver rejected Silver's attempt to stay out of jail during his second appeal on Monday, calling it a bid to "postpone his day of reckoning."

  5. August 17, 2018

    Feds Fire Back At Sheldon Silver's Post-Conviction Bail Bid

    Federal prosecutors on Thursday rejected as "baseless" a request by Sheldon Silver to stay free while appealing his conviction and seven-year sentence for political corruption, telling a Manhattan federal judge that the jury that convicted the former New York Assembly speaker had clear instructions.

  6. August 07, 2018

    Silver Again Seeks Bail During Appeal Of 2nd Conviction

    Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Monday again sought a reprieve from prison while he appeals his second conviction on corruption charges, claiming the trial court wrongly told jurors that no quid pro quo deal needed to be proven to find the formerly powerful Empire State politician guilty of bribery.

  7. July 27, 2018

    Silver Gets Shorter Sentence Of 7 Years After Graft Retrial

    A Manhattan federal judge hit former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver with a seven-year prison sentence for political corruption on Friday, calling the 12-year sentence she handed to the 73-year-old former Albany power broker after his first trial in 2016 "longer than necessary."

  8. July 23, 2018

    Feds, Silver Take Familiar Tacks Before Graft Sentencing

    Manhattan federal prosecutors on Friday asked a judge to give former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver more than 14 years, the highest recent sentence over Albany corruption, while Silver asked for a chance to redeem himself — positions similar to those they took after Silver's first trial. 

  9. May 11, 2018

    Ex-NY Assembly Speaker Convicted After 2nd Graft Trial

    Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted Friday for the second time for reaping what prosecutors say was a quid pro quo in which Silver accepted millions of dollars in illicit referral fees from developers and an asbestos disease doctor and took official action on their behalf.

  10. May 10, 2018

    Sheldon Silver, Feds Make Final Case To Jury In 2nd Graft Trial

    Prosecutors and defense lawyers made their closing arguments to a Manhattan federal jury on Thursday in the retrial of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on charges that he used the powers of his office to take in $5 million in bribes and fraud proceeds.

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