[jalisco555]

Sorry Illinois and Louisiana, New York has the most corrupt state government in the country.

[mewzilla]

Yup. And we saw this coming. It’s a damn good thing that NYS will quite probably lose another House seat or 2 after the next census.

[faucetman]

For those outside NY, The New York Court of Appeals is the HIGHEST court in the state. The NY Supreme court isn’t supreme in NY, it’s a lower court.

[AndyJackson]

is there anywhere in the country where judges actually subscribe to rule of law anymore, or is knowing the judges more important than knowing the law? Just an idle question from a swamp dweller.

[1Old Pro]

This was a Preet Berrara case, someone should ask him about it.

[gopno1]

It was a federal appeals court, not state. Terrible job in the article.

[RaginRak]

America’s decline under liberalism

[dp0622]

Mother ####er. I hate that #### more than obama

[MarvinStinson]

Crooked as hell.

[jalisco555]

Update- Federal prosecutors plan to re-try Silver.

http://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2017/07/federal_prosecutors_plan_to_re-try_case_against_silver_after_conviction_overturn.html#incart_breaking

[Freedumb]

"Sorry Illinois and Louisiana, New York has the most corrupt state government in the country."

When Sheldon or his successors manages to get their daughter installed as the NY State Attorney General I'll consider your assertion about NY being a more corrupt state government than Illinois. In the meantime I'll go back to counting all the recent Illinois Governors who are vacationing in the graybar hotel.

[Fitzy_888]

[ Two Days Ago: The Opposite Verdict for a lessor NY Assemblyman ]

TITLE: Boy oh Boyland: Silver and Skelos should say their prayers

EDITORIALS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Not in a gazillion years was ex-Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. going to win his appeal on 19 of his 21 bribery, fraud, extortion and theft convictions, nailed in an FBI sting, but his lawyers piled many billable hours on one thin reed:

Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously threw out the corruption conviction of Virginia’s ex-governor because he talked big but delivered little for his generous benefactors, deemed in bounds as government business.

So — Oho! — Boylan’s lawyers said his jury might have gotten off-base instructions. Which mattered not a whit in the case of this incorrigible shakedown artist, his conviction upheld Monday. Guilty former Albany leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, whose attorneys are throwing the same Hail Mary pass, should say their prayers.

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