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    Sheldon Silver Is Indicted on Fraud and Extortion Charges

    Sheldon Silver Is Indicted on Fraud and Extortion Charges

    A federal grand jury in Manhattan voted on Thursday morning to indict Assemblyman Sheldon Silver on the fraud and extortion charges that were the basis of his arrest last month, and led to his ouster as speaker of the State Assembly.

    Mr. Silver was arrested on Jan. 22 on a five-count criminal complaint that detailed two alleged bribery and kickback schemes in a case that has upended Albany. The three-count indictment handed up in the United States District Courthouse in Manhattan, charged Mr. Silver with mail fraud, wire fraud and extortion under the color of official right.
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    Charges Against Sheldon Silver



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    COUNT ONE
    1. From at least in or about 2000, up to and including
    the date of this Complaint, in the Southern District of New York and
    elsewhere, SHELDON SILVER, the defendant, willfully and knowingly,
    having devised and intending to devise a scheme and artifice to
    defraud, and to deprive the public of its intangible right to SILVER' s
    honest services as an elected legislator and as the Speaker of the
    New York State Assembly, would and did transmit and cause to be
    transmitted by means of wire communication in interstate and foreign
    commerce, writings, signs, signals, pictures, and sounds for the
    purpose of executing such scheme and artifice, to wit, SILVER used
    the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself
    millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate
    income earned by SILVER as a private lawyer.
    (Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1343 and 1346.)

    COUNT TWO
    2. From at least in or about 2000, up ·to and including
    the date of this Complaint, in the Southern District of New York and
    elsewhere, SHELDON SILVER, the defendant, willfully and knowingly,
    having devised and intending to devise a scheme and artifice to
    defraud, and to deprive the public of its intangible right to SILVER' s
    honest services as an elected legislator and as the Speaker of the
    New York State Assembly, for the purpose of executing such scheme
    and artifice and attempting to do so, placed in a post office and
    authorized depository for mail matter, a matter and thing to be sent
    and delivered by the Postal Service and deposited and caused to be
    deposited a matter and thing to be sent and delivered by private and
    commercial interstate carrier, and took and received therefrom, such
    matter and thing, and knowingly caused to be delivered by mail and
    such carrier according to the direction thereon, such matter and
    thing, to wit, SILVER used the power and influence of his official
    position to obtain for himself millions of dollars in bribes and
    kickbacks masked as legitimate income earned by SILVER as a private
    lawyer.
    (Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1341 and 1346.)
    COUNT THREE
    3. From at least in or about 2000, up to and including
    the date of this Complaint, in the Southern District of New York and
    elsewhere, SHELDON SILVER, the defendant, and others known and
    unknown, willfully and knowingly did combine, conspire, confederate,
    and agree together and with each other to commit honest services mail
    fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1341
    and 1346.
    4. It was a part and an object of the conspiracy that
    SHELDON SILVER, the defendant, willfully and knowingly, having
    devised and intending to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud,
    and to deprive the public of its intangible right to SILVER' s honest
    services as an elected legislator and as the Speaker of the New York
    State Assembly, for the purpose of executing such scheme and artifice
    and attempting to do so, placed in a post office and authorized
    depository for mail matter, a matter and thing to be sent and
    delivered by the Postal Service and deposited and caused to be
    deposited a matter and thing to be sent and delivered by private and
    2 commercial interstate carrier, and took and received therefrom, such
    matter and thing, and knowingly caused to be delivered by mail and
    such carrier according to the direction thereon, such matter and
    thing, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1341
    and 1346, to wit, SILVER agreed with others known and unknown,
    including a co-conspirator not named herein ("CC-1"), to use the
    power and influence of his official position to induce certain real
    estate developers with significant business before the State of New
    York to retain the law firm of CC-1 in exchange for hundreds of
    thousands of dollars in secret bribes and kickbacks paid to SILVER
    by the law firm, which were masked as legitimate income earned by
    SILVER as a private lawyer.
    (Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349.)

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    COUNT FOUR 5. From at least in or about 2000, up to and including the date of this Complaint, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, SHELDON SILVER, the defendant, willfully and knowingly, did obstruct, delay, and affect in any way and degree commerce, and the movement of articles and commodities in commerce, by extortion, as those terms are defined in Title 18, United States Code, Section 1951, and did thereby obtain property not due SILVER or his office and to which SILVER was not entitled, under color of official right, to wit, SILVER used the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself millions of dollars masked as legitimate income earned by SILVER as a private lawyer. (Title 18, United States Code, Section 1951.)

    COUNT FIVE 6. From at least in or about 2000, up to and including the date of this Complaint, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, SHELDON SILVER, the defendant, and others known and unknown, willfully and knowingly did combine, conspire, confederate, and agree together and with each other to willfully and knowingly obstruct, delay, and affect in any way and degree commerce, and the movement of articles and commodities in commerce, by extortion, as those terms are defined in Title 18, United States Code, Section 1951, and did thereby obtain property not due SILVER or his off ice and to which SILVER was not entitled, under color of official right, to wit, 3 SILVER agreed with others known and unknown, including CC-1, to use the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself hundreds of thousands of dollars masked as legitimate income earned by SILVER as a private lawyer. (Title 18, United States Code, Section 1951.)

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    Ex-NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver indicted on 3 charges
    NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was indicted Thursday on three charges after his arrest in a federal bribery case.

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    Next stamp on every single lawyer thief who uses the same "Referral Gimmicks" to skim money off similar deals !

    May this open the flood gates for a tidal wave of indictments of others !
    #Dems play musical chairs + patronage and nepotism = entitlement !

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4248 View Post


    Next stamp on every single lawyer thief who uses the same "Referral Gimmicks" to skim money off similar deals !

    May this open the flood gates for a tidal wave of indictments of others !

    So when do the IDA's get shut down? Correct me if I am wrong but they get a cut for each incentive package they give away.

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    So the felony complaint alleging five violations of law is down to three indictable offenses? And Silver's attorneys haven't even gone to work yet?

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    Correct me if I am wrong but they get a cut for each incentive package they give away.
    Is there a thread started on this? I'd like to know more.
    Democrats & Republicans Suck Alike.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    So when do the IDA's get shut down? Correct me if I am wrong but they get a cut for each incentive package they give away.
    I suppose they'll be shut down when all their debt is retired as required by law and you get elected to the state legislature and succeed in passing legislation repealing the enabling legislation creating them. Nothing to it but you'd better get to work because you're likely to be busy for the next 15 or 20 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NY The Vampire State View Post
    Is there a thread started on this? I'd like to know more.
    Here's a thought...do some research on your own and try and learn something instead of waiting for a "thread" where you can be spoonfed horsesh*t by most of the dullards who post on here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by grump View Post
    Here's a thought...do some research on your own and try and learn something instead of waiting for a "thread" where you can be spoonfed horsesh*t by most of the dullards who post on here.
    Shut up asswipe.

    Now I know why they call you grump.
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    Ah, the type of thoughtful commentary we've come to expect from you.

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    So it comes out in the indictment that Silver had multi$ invested in WNY. One bundle with a Williamsville outfit called Counsel Financial Services. Another pile is w/ something called JaRon that it seems shares office space or at least an address with one of the outfits set up in a Startup-NY tax free zone affiliated with UB.

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    I joked that the fire in the tower downtown was to burn records that would incriminate politicians. Maybe it wasn't a joke afterall
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    Quote Originally Posted by 4248 View Post

    Next stamp on every single lawyer thief who uses the same "Referral Gimmicks" to skim money off similar deals !
    May this open the flood gates for a tidal wave of indictments of others !
    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.
    #Dems play musical chairs + patronage and nepotism = entitlement !

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