Sheldon Silver
Sheldon Silver
Sheldon "Shelly" Silveris a former lawyer and Democratic Party politician from New York, who rose to become the powerful Speaker of the New York State Assembly in 1994 until his arrest on federal corruption charges in 2015. After his resignation as Speaker, he was convicted of all charges, expelled from the Assembly, disbarred, fined $7 million and sentenced to 12 years in prison, though his legal appeals were continuing...
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This is a major, major issue on a national basis and this is the way members chose to address it. This was not an issue where the leadership set the policy.
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It wasn't a play. Goldman was very concerned about the tunnel. Even if they weren't leaving downtown, this is a reaffirmation by a major international business that they were committed to downtown.