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Former Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver will be sentenced in federal court April 13. Judge Valerie Caproni set the date yesterday. On Nov. 30, a jury convicted the onetime Assembly speaker of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering....

People in the community have now had a little bit of time to process yesterday's conviction of Sheldon Silver on federal corruption charges.  Here are some of the comments we've gathered in the past 24 hours from local politicos. State...

Residents of the Lower East Side and other Lower Manhattan neighborhoods woke up this morning with no representation in the New York State Assembly. It is the most immediate impact of yesterday's conviction on federal corruption charges of Assemblyman...

The long holiday weekend apparently did not help calm the jury in Sheldon Silver's federal corruption trial. Just minutes after deliberations resumed this morning, a juror sent a note to the judge that read: “I, , Juror #11, no longer...

The fate of Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver is now in the hands of 12 men and women, jurors in the highest profile public corruption trial New York has seen in many years. This morning, federal judge Valerie...

The Sheldon Silver political corruption trial is heading for a faster conclusion than previously believed. Prosecutors had estimated it would take four weeks to lay out their case against the Lower East Side state assemblyman. Now they're anticipating winding...

It did not take long for the prosecution in Sheldon Silver's federal corruption trial to call its star witness. Dr. Robert Taub, a cancer researcher at Columbia University, testified most of the day yesterday, and he's continuing to undergo...

The federal prosecution of Sheldon Silver is "the most prominent public corruption trial to be held in New York City in decades," as the New York Times noted this morning. But it is, of course, also a major local...

“I knew was going to investigate things up in Albany” said potential juror. “I knew it didn’t go forward” https://t.co/0MpODAP5d2 — erica orden (@eorden) November 3, 2015 After a long day of jury selection, opening statements are expected in the...

Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's federal corruption trial doesn't officially begin until Monday, but in a way, it's already started. As the New York Times reports, more than 100 prospective jurors filled out questionnaires yesterday. Silver is accused of...