A final hearing was held yesterday ahead of Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's federal corruption trial, which is scheduled to begin November 2. Here's a summary:
--Judge Valerie Caproni said she expects the trial to last up to six...
The federal corruption trial of Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver is set to begin in November. In recent weeks, lawyers on both sides have been skirmishing over what evidence the U.S. Attorney will be allowed to present before...
State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's federal corruption trial is scheduled to begin in about six weeks. In advance of the profile legal battle, both federal prosecutors and the former Assembly speaker's attorneys filed a new round of documents late Friday.
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We're now into the dog days of summer. But for hard-core Lower East Side political activists, July has been anything but relaxing.
In recent days, they've been battling to influence who makes it onto the ballot for the Sept. 10...
A Manhattan judge yesterday denied Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's third attempt to get federal corruption charges dismissed.
In his filing, Silver argued that the extortion charges he faces are not crimes but simple "coercion" and that, at worst,...
Campaign finance filings show that Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver has spent more than $1.5 million in legal fees since his arrest in January on federal corruption charges.
The former Assembly speaker paid the law firm MoloLamken more than...
In state disclosure forms made public last week, State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver declined to report outside business dealings and income from the year 2014.
"Given pending proceedings in Federal Court," the former Assembly Speaker wrote, "it is inappropriate to answer...
In court papers filed on Friday, federal prosecutors urged a judge to dismiss State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's latest bid to derail their case. The former Assembly speaker was indicted earlier this year and accused of accepting $4 million in...
Jenifer Rajkumar gathered with supporters at City Hall yesterday to announce her re-election campaign for district leader in Lower Manhattan. As you may recall, she unsuccessfully took on City Council member Margaret Chin a couple of years ago and...
Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver came to P.S. 134 and P.S. 137 on East Broadway Friday afternoon to announce a new program to replace up to a thousand basketball nets in New York City schools. Basketball City, which...
