Once-powerful NY lawmaker due to surrender for prison term – By The Associated Press (ABC News) / Aug 26 2020
Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is about to begin serving time for his corruption conviction
NEW YORK — Following years of fending off going to prison, former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is about to begin serving time.
Silver, 76, is due to report on Wednesday to a federal prison in Otisville, New York, after being sentenced earlier this year to 6 1/2 years behind bars in a corruption case that toppled him from his longtime position as one of the state’s most powerful politicians.
Messages were left on Tuesday seeking comment from Silver’s lawyers on the surrender.
The Democrat was ousted as speaker in 2015 and convicted later that year, but appeals had kept him out of prison. His conviction in federal court in Manhattan was overturned on appeal before he was convicted again in 2018.
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