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In Albany, Rape, Punch-Outs, and Shutdowns Are All a Baffling Blur Fri Jun 27,12:24 PM ET By Wayne Barrett Village Voice Writer Lost in the media bombast about the Albany rape arrest of Michael Boxley, chief counsel to Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver, were the surprising comments of state Democratic chair Denny Farrell, who also heads the powerful Assembly Ways and Means Committee. In an appearance on NY1 on June 12—a day after the arrest—Farrell tried to parrot the silver line, insisting that he "shouldn't be making any comments" and that this was now in the hands of the criminal justice...