U.S. Deadline for Speaker Silver Tests Case’s Strength
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The fate of Sheldon Silver, one of New York’s most powerful politicians until last month, turns largely on whether millions of dollars paid to him by two law firms were legitimate fees or payoffs as he used his Assembly speaker post to enrich himself.
“Were these truly legal referral fees?” asked Anthony Sabino, a business law professor at St. John’s University in New York. Or “did he take the money in exchange for an explicit official act?”