'RAPE' AIDE HAS YEAR ON EA$Y STREET

New York Post ^ | 6/20/03 | FREDRIC U. DICKER

[kattracks]

June 20, 2003 -- ALBANY - The top aide to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who was put on unpaid leave earlier this week after being charged with rape, has accumulated 421/2 weeks of paid leave, officials revealed yesterday.

J. Michael Boxley, 43, Silver's $130,395-a-year chief counsel and a one-time senior aide to Senate Democrats and former Gov. Mario Cuomo, is owed by the state a total of 1,485 hours in vacation, personal, holiday and sick time, according to the Assembly's personnel office.

[DoughtyOne]

Wow. And if he drugged her he's going to get room and board too. Actually he may wind up getting room and board anyway.

[DonQ]

To accumulate this much leave time means this guy worked every day for years, without taking any vacation at all for years at a time. It might explain something about the crudeness of his social skills.

[aristeides]

Federal government workers have a limit in how much leave they can accrue. If they accrue beyond that limit, at year's end they lose the excess (use it or lose it). No such provision for NY State workers?

[aristeides]

Pataki, legislators agree to strengthen sex assault laws.

[aristeides]

Pataki, legislators agree to strengthen sex assault laws.

[aristeides]

The lease they could do Board OKs 4.5% and 7.5% rent hikes for tenants:

In other action as the legislative session closed with a flurry, lawmakers and Pataki agreed to stricter penalties for possession of date rape drugs. The deal came a week after Michael Boxley, chief counsel to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, was charged with raping an Assembly staffer.

[Liz]

New York is government by the politicians and for the politicans. No others need apply.

It's despicable that taxpayers are footing the bills for this lowlife excuse for a human being.

[gunnedah]

The authorities in New Yawk may even deliver this women to him in prison as a trophy!

[dsc]

What, no chance that this guy is innocent?

[Liz]

What are you kidding?

[dsc]

Asking. He hasn't had a trial, has he?

[NYer]

No such provision for NY State workers?

Yes, of course those provisions exist for NYS workers

Boxley, on the other hand, works in the NYS Legislature. These are all patronage positions. The Legislature is a self regulating body, not subject to audit. Hence, who can challenge their own time sheets? They run their own Ethics Committee, as well. Is it any wonder that after the first rape accusation, Silver recommended that Boxley stay away from bars.

The Legislature needs to be cleaned up. Some are up for re-election this year. Vote the abusers out of office!

[Liz]

No, began to unfold the past week.

[1Old Pro]

owed by the state a total of 1,485 hours in vacation, personal, holiday and sick time, according to the Assembly's personnel office.

Public Service jobs, you gotta love the benefits. is it any wonder NY is 13 billion in the hole.

[dsc]

Well, I'm not saying he's not guilty, either, but I've gotten leary of media reports. I'm going to need more information.

[Liz]

You're rather late to the game. There's been a succession of FR threads that exhaust this subject. We've been through the details. Too bad you weren't.

[dsc]

I just read about six articles from online services.

Important assertions made in those:

No force or threats of force were used.
Victim reports effects that sound like some kind of drug.

Questions left unanswered by those:

Was she slipped a drug?
If so, who did it?
Did she take any kind of medicine that could have interacted with the alcohol?

Looks to me like the prosecution's case rests on the proposition that he slipped her a drug, but none of the articles I saw reported the results of her blood work.

If wanting more information at this stage makes me an idiot deserving of sarcasm, so be it. I can live with that.

[Labyrinthos]

No such provision for NY State workers?

Not for exempt, confidential employees.

[Liz]

Look, the authorities don't spread the indictable facts of a case all over the papers. They are doing tests on pills they found in his pocket. They confiscated his computer to see if he used the Internet (a federal crime) to buy the pills in another country (Canada maybe).

There are lots of things we know like he gave the 2003 rape victim the keys to his Jag and she left her unmbrella in his car. The 2001 victim went to Silver with her story. So that's corborrated. All that is -- taa-daa -- evidence.

We still don't know how many more victims there are. If several more turn up, that would strengthen the case......and so on and so forth.