Posted on 01/21/2015 9:19:46 PM PST by iowamark
Federal authorities are expected to arrest Sheldon Silver, the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, on corruption charges on Thursday, people with knowledge of the matter said, in a case that is likely to throw Albany into disarray.
The investigation that led to the expected charges against Mr. Silver, a Democrat from the Lower East Side of Manhattan who has served as speaker for more than two decades, began after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in March abruptly shut down an anticorruption commission he had created in 2013.
Details of the specific charges to be brought against Mr. Silver were unclear on Wednesday night, but one of the people with knowledge of the matter said they stemmed from payments that Mr. Silver received from a small law firm that specializes in seeking reductions of New York City real estate taxes. Mr. Silver failed to list the payments from the firm, Goldberg & Iryami, on his annual financial disclosure filings, as required.
The total amount of the payments was unclear, but another person has said they were substantial and were made over several years...
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http://nypost.com/2015/01/22/sheldon-silver-arrested/
“An FBI spokesman says New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the most powerful politicians in the state, has been arrested.
The spokesman, Peter Donald, says Silver was taken into custody around 8 a.m. Thursday.
Donald declined to discuss the charges Silver is facing. The U.S. attorney’s office is expected to discuss the case later Thursday, and Silver is expected in court.”
It couldn’t happen to a more deserving crook. Now they need to get Cuomo...
Yeah, gloat if you want. By the time this is all over, this will turn out to have all bee George Bush’s fault, or maybe Scott Walker’s.
Hopefully it will be Mario Cuomo’s son’s fault. That RAT is just as corrupt as his other Albany colleagues.
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This is the @$$ that is blocking MMA in New York because the Las Vegas chapter of the Culinary Workers Union hates ZUFFA since their casinos are not unionized.
Ha! I bet Dana White spouted many happy expletive filled exclamations of joy and celebration. Perhaps someday we may see get a Madison Square Garden event happen.
If only the governor were sharing his cell
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