Posted on 01/19/2021 10:34:28 AM PST by nickcarraway
Rumor has it that President Trump is considering pardoning Sheldon Silver, former speaker of the Assembly and criminal. We hope it is just that: rumors.
Silver had a nice racket going as one of Albany’s most powerful. He would arrange for state money to be paid to a cancer researcher at Columbia University. That researcher would refer cancer-stricken subjects to a law firm associated with Silver; they would pay the speaker a fee. Essentially, he was laundering taxpayer money for his own pockets, to the tune of $3.9 million in fees.
Silver remained unrepentant during his trial. He has used every trick to stay out of prison. He was tried and convicted in 2015, and appealed. He was convicted again in 2018, and appealed. He spent years afterward free, only landing in prison — for a 6½-year sentence — just this past August.
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Anyone know when the pardon list will be released?
Let him pardon whoever he wants. It is his right.
I agree with the NYP on this one.
Shelly Silver is slime.
Just did what the Bite-me crime family was doing. Business as usual
Wouldn’t surprise me if Silver helped PDJT along the way when it came to NYC business but - he’s a Dem RAT and still an influential party member in the state with state politicians and bureaucrats who will hound him for the rest of his life, why bother?
It was Clinton’s right to pardon whoever he wanted. So you agree with everyone he pardoned?
I hope he throws in a few surprises that causes a few heart attacks!
Yes, I’ve noted 2 that would probably do just that.
I have mixed feelings about them.
Let President Trump be TRUMP!
I want to see Assange, Brian Kolfage, Steve Bannon, Paul Manafort at the top of the list and many, many more that have survived the slings and arrows of the left for the past 4 years and will only get worse if they’re not pardoned. I hope the President can protect himself and his family too.........;(
He already pardoned Manafort.
https://nypost.com/2020/12/23/trump-pardons-paul-manafort-roger-stone-and-charles-kushner/
Thank you Tina.........so much has gone on if I ever knew it, I forgot it.......;)
Not this scum Silver!
BINGO! There are a lot more deserving people.
Why would you want to see someone who committed and act of espionage and war against the U.S. pardoned? Someone who stole intel and gave it to U.S. enemies? Who put U.S. service members at risk and cost lives?
Why do only Democrats get pardoned?
Why would you want to see someone who committed and act of espionage and war against the U.S. pardoned? Someone who stole intel and gave it to U.S. enemies? Who put U.S. service members at risk and cost lives?
Who you talkin’ about?
Assange. The partner of Chlesea/Bradley Manning, whose sentence Obama commuted.
Well, if he hadn’t exposed some of these documents would we have known just how deep the corruption was in the swamp and who was the most corrupted, the biggest liars that made deals with the devil instead of protecting America and her interests? I’m not trying to be a smartass but I’ve heard this from both sides in the past.........
Hmmm, really? I never heard that such a thing happened.
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