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Thread: Sheldon Silver Is Indicted on Fraud and Extortion Charges

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4248 View Post
    Rumors have it there are a few "Insiders Talking" - the fear is Sheldons fellow Lawyer Politicians will provide enough of a argument to slide into retirement, instead of any real punishment.

    The "cooperators" understand/fear that they will be left holding the bag !

    If he skates - he skates with all his obvious and not so obvious assets.

    Other Politicians see this as another "Bruno Test" - there hoping this will reinforce their beliefs that their deals and kick back are just what they have been taught - a perk deserved by the "Upper Classmen"

    Time will tell - the money is still talking !

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    This is based on opinions of mine and other tax payers I talk to. What's written is opinion based on media stories and internet articles.
    4248, what's the "Bruno Test"? Is that the one where the prosecuting attorney has no facts to back up his case? That's what happened with Bruno and that's why the jury was out deliberating for about 45 minutes. Would've been less but some of them had to pee before they went into court to deliver their unanimous "not guilty" verdict.

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    Silver gets more guilty everytime there is another article on him. This bastard needs jail time when found guilty. He is a prime political piece of ****. Jail the bastard.

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    Silver is a very crafty politician and as he is still holding office as an Assemblyman.
    I wonder if he is still controlling the Assembly, behind the scenes as he did when he officially held the power?
    Russia didn't make me vote for Trump, Hillary did.

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    Sheldon Silver son-in-law busted by feds in alleged Ponzi scheme

    A son-in-law of indicted former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was busted by the feds Monday on charges that he ran a $7 million Ponzi scheme.
    http://nypost.com/2015/04/13/sheldon...ium=SocialFlow

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    Greedy Family

    His daughter (mother of eight!) is also involved...today's NYPost

    Bull's-eye on Shel gal

    Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s daughter is under investigation and will likely face charges in the alleged $7 million Ponzi scheme that got her husband busted, a law-enforcement source told The Post on Tuesday.

    Michelle Trebitsch, 37, “is involved” and “most likely will squeeze a plea [deal],” the source added.

    Trebitsch’s husband, Marcello Trebitsch, was charged Monday with running a five-year fraud that scammed a Maryland-based developer and his accountant with promises of double-digit profits from trades in large-cap stocks.


    According to court papers, Michelle met with the developer in 2009 at a Manhattan restaurant where she said she co-owned her husband’s investment fund, Allese Capita LLC, “and that she was a CPA and maintained the books and records for Allese.”


    Michelle, who has six kids with Marcello, also held some of the bank and brokerage accounts into which he allegedly plowed his loot, and in 2010 she moved about $422,000 in illegal proceeds that he deposited into an account she controlled under the name Israeli Car Rental Co., the complaint against him alleges.


    Sources have said the securities and wire fraud charges against Marcello are not connected to the pending corruption charges that forced Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, to quit his longtime speaker post in disgrace.


    Meanwhile, a series of online videos show Marcello, 37, pontificating at length about Jewish law — including one posted Tuesday, a day after his arrest by the FBI.


    Marcello, identified as Rabbi Yair Trebitsch, is featured in 71 videos at the “Torah Anytime” Web site, which offers free, daily lessons from more than 400 rabbis and other speakers.


    In his videos, Marcello — wearing a yarmulke, glasses, and jacket and tie — rocks back and forth or side to side while seated behind a table with a book stand and an open book on top.


    He liberally sprinkles his English commentaries with Hebrew words and phrase.


    Almost all of the videos are at least 30 minutes long, while several last around an hour.


    According to the feds, Marcello lost what little cash he actually spent on stocks, and he mainly used his victims’ money to repay the developer $2.2 million and “for his own personal benefit.”


    The evidence against him includes a handwritten note, found in a suitcase at his Brooklyn home, that says, “Nothing that I can say can justify what I have done,” along with a bogus balance sheet tallying his victims’ “investments,” court papers say.


    Marcello, Michelle, and Marcello’s defense lawyer would not comment.


    Additional reporting by Rich Calder

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