Conviction of ex-speaker Silver sends NY politics into turmoil
http://www.uticaod.com/article/20151201/NEWS/151209990
(Excerpts/ Utica OD): The conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has shaken New York politics down to the granite foundations of the state Capitol…. A jury convicted the 71-year-old Manhattan Democrat on Monday on charges that he traded favors for $4 million in kickbacks from a cancer researcher and real estate developers….A political earthquake has hit Albany, said Blair Horner, legislative director for the New York Public Interest Group. "This is a stinging rebuke to the 'Albany business as usual' defense and a clarion call to clean up state ethics."
