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...