Document Type
Brief
Category
What Comes Next?
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
Sheldon Silver is the former Democratic Speaker of the New York State Assembly, a post he held from 1994 until January 2015. He represented Manhattan’s Lower East Side from 1976 until November 30, 2015, when he was convicted on four counts of honest-services fraud, two counts of extortion and one count of money laundering.
Disciplines
Law
Recommended Citation
Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity,
The Conviction of Former New York State Assembly Leader Sheldon Silver,
(2015).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/public_integrity/98