Dr. Robert Taub, a top oncologist was given the boot as director of Columbia U's Mesothelioma Center.....Taub connived w/ Democrat Speaker Silver to get $500,000 in state funding in exchange for funneling sick patients to Speaker Silver's law firm Weitz & Luxenberg. W/L in turn gave the allegedly crooked Silver $3 million in referral fees for referring more than 100 clients to Weitz & Luxenberg – the majority of which were asbestos-related cases. The dirty money came from $8.5 million tax dollars via the state Health Care Reform Act some of which was intended for Sept 11 research. Silver allegedly...