Free Republic

February 25, 2005 When I filed a complaint against Michael Boxley, then the chief counsel to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, for sexual assault, every authority except my own boss (Assemblyman Pat Manning) greeted me with contempt. The dismissed aide (of Sen David Patterson), Neysha Williams, has exposed Albany's wall of silence — a mass of legislators whose instinct for self-preservation is more powerful than their regard for the safety and well being of others. Those who break the code of silence to protect themselves and others can expect only punishment. Williams says that she was physically attacked and verbally threatened...