Posted on 01/25/2015 7:22:53 AM PST by PROCON
Sheldon Silver has perverted the courts as well as the Capitol.
His law firm, Weitz & Luxenberg, gets its asbestos cases — and paydays — moved more quickly than those of other attorneys, and reaps a fortune from favorable rulings by friendly judges, charge lawyers and tort-reform advocates.
Silver’s East Village firm handles more than half the cases in a special section of Manhattan Supreme Court called NYCAL (New York City Asbestos Litigation). So dominant is the firm, the court’s Web site refers to cases as “Weitz” or “non-Weitz.”
The chief asbestos judge, Sherry Klein Heitler — also Manhattan’s chief civil judge — has handled dozens of Weitz & Luxenberg cases.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“Pretty big story, and of course not much coverage nationally.”
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Why would it get much national coverage?
He’s a local pol and most of the USA never heard of him.
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Perhaps I spoke too soon:
http://nypost.com/2015/01/26/cuomo-on-edge-as-federal-corruption-probe-continues/
“You can’t be serious.”
I’m very serious.
He’s not well known.
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