NFT: Sheldon Silver, NY Assembly Speaker Faces Corruption Arrest

is dirty, Cosmo.

for 20 years but someone wanted to bring him down.

He'll get indicted, fight it in court, get off on a technicality.
All in all it'll be politics as usual in our beloved NYS.

in a few years in a small article in the middle of the newspaper will be an article written that NY State has agreed to pay Silver's legal fees

a delegate took a plea to sleeping with his 17-year old receptionist (the old "I thought she was 18"). He was in jail but out on work release. Resigned from his job and then abruptly announced he would run in the special election. He was at his law office when his work release did not allow him to be so they revoked that, but despite that he won reelection. Now he is facing perjury charges.

It is apparent that many of them have mental conditions or very low IQs, You hear some of them speak and anyone normal is appalled. Some are incoherent. These are our decision makers!

you deserve the government you elect. If you didn't vote then STFU

now SHelly. Charlie Rangel has to be sitting up a bit this morning lol...

In comment 12104703 Dunedin81 said:

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a delegate took a plea to sleeping with his 17-year old receptionist (the old "I thought she was 18"). He was in jail but out on work release. Resigned from his job and then abruptly announced he would run in the special election. He was at his law office when his work release did not allow him to be so they revoked that, but despite that he won reelection. Now he is facing perjury charges.

Joe Morrissey has been an embarrassment to Richmond for 20+ years. What a piece of garbage. To add to Russell's post, the Times-Dispatch put together a little timeline of Fightin' Joe's history. BTW: the 1999 assault conviction was when he attacked a contractor who was doing work on his house, beating him about the head and ramming his head into a brick wall while screaming "I'm going to kill you!"

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July 1990: Virginia State Bar orders Morrissey to attend an ethics course after a former client complains that a personal injury suit was mishandled. September 1990: Virginia State Bar committee clears Morrissey of seven allegations that he says concerned his conduct as a defense lawyer and commonwealth’s attorney-elect. July 1991: He is convicted of contempt in Richmond General District Court, fined $50 and sentenced to 10 days in jail after writing a critical letter to a substitute judge. December 1991: Morrissey gets into a courthouse fistfight with defense attorney David P. Baugh. He later serves five days in jail for contempt of court. June 1993: Morrissey is indicted on five felony charges, including bribery, perjury and misuse of public funds, four days before the primary for the Democratic nomination for commonwealth’s attorney. He is defeated in the primary by attorney David M. Hicks, who wins the seat in November. After the primary, Morrissey is suspended —– and reinstated — from the prosecutor’s office several times. August 1993: A jury acquits Morrissey of the three bribery charges, and the other two charges are ultimately dismissed. December 1993: Morrissey’s law license is suspended for six months when a three-judge panel rules he violated legal ethics with his handling of a rape case. February 1998: A U.S. District judge sentences Morrissey to 90 days in jail and suspends him from practicing in federal court for two years for breaking court rules by talking to reporters about a drug case. October 1999: A jury convicts Morrissey of assault and battery and fines him $2,500 for beating Garien H. Wycoff in a Richmond backyard July 3. One week later, Wycoff files a lawsuit against Morrissey for $1.3 million. November 1999: Morrissey files a lawsuit against Wycoff, Ann Marie Wycoff and Johanna Wycoff, alleging they conspired to damage Morrissey’s professional reputation by lying about him in court. Morrissey drops the lawsuit in January 2001. February 2000: Federal prosecutors accuse Morrissey, a defense attorney at the time, of trying to fake completion of community service hours, which were part of his 1998 U.S. District Court sentence for contempt of court. March 2000: A three-judge panel for the State Bar suspends Morrissey from practicing law for three years. The judges find that he violated disciplinary rules for lawyers in the Virginia Code of Professional Responsibility. September 2000: A federal judge orders Morrissey jailed for 90 days for violating probation on his 1998 contempt conviction. In August 2000, the judge convicted Morrissey of violating his probation. The judge determined that Morrissey lied when he denied attempting to bribe a Habitat for Humanity construction supervisor to falsely state that Morrissey had completed his community service. December 2001: A panel of U.S. District Court judges bars Morrissey from practicing law in federal court due to his frequent episodes of unethical and disobedient conduct. Spring 2006: Morrissey returns to Richmond after teaching and studying in Dublin, Ireland, in 2001 and teaching trial advocacy to prosecutors in Sydney, Australia, in 2003. He is denied admittance to the Australian bar. April 2012: The Virginia Supreme Court reinstates Morrissey’s law license. The court votes 4-3, despite the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board’s unanimous recommendation against Morrissey’s petition.

Opens the door for MMA in NY

This is a good overview of the facts.
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In comment 12104822 Gary from The East End said:

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This is a good overview of the facts. Link - ( New Window )

Thanks.

The part about the Moreland Commission perhaps angering the Feds is interesting. One of the charges in the last election again Cuomo was that he killed it because they went beyond his interest in investigating legislators and started looking at him.

Crooked as always

Regardless of affiliation seldom serve the best interests of voters.

I don't just mean corrupt, I mean Diamond Joe Quimby/cartoon character corrupt.

In comment 12104926 jcn56 said:

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I don't just mean corrupt, I mean Diamond Joe Quimby/cartoon character corrupt.

Like Jimmy Walker, who had the good taste to run off to Europe for years to avoid prosecution after he resigned

He had the pols by the balls and he wouldn't squeeze. Like his plans on education reform, at lest what he said yesterday, but disbanding Moreland was a bad move that will ahunt him if he has plans for higher office.

In comment 12104944 Greg from LI said:

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In comment 12104926 jcn56 said: Quote: I don't just mean corrupt, I mean Diamond Joe Quimby/cartoon character corrupt. Like Jimmy Walker, who had the good taste to run off to Europe for years to avoid prosecution after he resigned

Or a guy so corrupt his nickname was actually 'Boss' (Tweed) - and who after being imprisoned for corruption, *escaped* from prison (wasn't much better at that than stealing, since he was caught pretty quickly).

for smoke-filled room decision making. The whole state political system needs an enema.

two criminals walking free.

The difference is that Rangel behave like a typical liberal politician in his political life. His corruption was more about how he paid for his elections, than about how he behaved in office. House members don't individually control enough legislation to do what Silver did at the state level.

Sheldon Silver, by contrast, held an entire state hostage with his corrupt behaviors and conflicts of interest. As far as vote/not vote, he has always represented districts where he has such a huge majority that his corrupt behaviors never put his seat at risk. The only possible way to get him out is to lock him up and hope that he has to be replaced. I don't know if this set of charges achieves that, but we can hope...

The corruption in NY knows no boundaries.

In comment 12104976 Rob in CT/NYC said:

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for smoke-filled room decision making. The whole state political system needs an enema.

For years it was just Shelly and Joe deciding what happened. I dont know why anyone else ever ran for office.