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| Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver |
A federal jury wasted little time deliberating in returning its verdict finding former New York House Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the Empire State's most powerful politicians, guilty on seven counts of public corruption, including honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering. The charges stemmed from a scheme Silver contrived using his role as Assembly Speaker to obtain $4 million in payments to his law firm. The 71-year old automatically forfeits the seat he held in New York's Assembly for the past 40 years. The same federal prosecutor is also currently prosecuting a case
against Silver's former Republican counterpart in the New York Senate, State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who faces conspiracy, extortion and bribery charges in connection with the awarding of a $12 million contract to a company that hired his son. Both Silver and Skelos engaged in activities many prominent Indiana politicians engage as a matter of practice with impunity because our federal and state prosecutors decline to consider such activities to be crimes.
3 comments:
Good God! Is this state going to have to totally meltdown before anything is done about the Bi-Partisan Cabal that is running our state into the ground! We must keep up the good work Gary!
"Senator Thomas W. Libous, the second highest-ranking Republican in the chamber, might otherwise be the leading candidate to take over, but he is also under federal indictment, and fighting cancer."
Wow. It always runs thick.
Sheldon must be lamenting the fact he was not a politician in Indiana. It seems with exception of some low hanging fruit and/or someone who has crossed the power brokers, Indiana is a sanctuary state when it comes to prosecuting political corruption.
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