U.S. Supreme Court spurns former New York lawmaker Silver's appeal

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The Supreme Court declines to hear an appeal by Sheldon Silver, the once-powerful New York State Assembly Speaker, of his conviction on corruption charges that resulted in a 6-1/2-year prison sentence

Silver, 76, began serving his sentence in August despite being in poor health. He had appealed the portions of his 2018 conviction that were upheld in January 2020 by the Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Silver, a Democrat, was accused of accepting close to $4 million in illegal payments in exchange for taking official actions in two separate schemes. He represented Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and served as Assembly speaker from 1994 to 2015. In his appeal, Silver said the 2nd Circuit ignored Supreme Court precedent by upholding his conviction despite the absence of agreements that he would perform “official acts” for the researcher and developers in exchange for bribes.Silver was originally convicted in 2015 and sentenced to 12 years in prison. The 2nd Circuit voided that conviction in 2017, citing a 2016 U.S.

 

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