It’s only a matter of time before one of these corruption cases goes up the food chain right to the office of the low-IQ Andrew “I’m an immigrant” Cuomo.
Albany is about as crooked as any city in the nation, and Cuomo is always knee deep by association, but manages to be Teflon Don 2.0.
Sheldon Silver, a former New York Assembly speaker who brokered legislative deals for two decades before criminal charges abruptly ended his career, was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison by a judge who said political corruption in the state must end.
The punishment, announced by U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni, amounts to five fewer years in prison than she gave him after he was initially convicted in the case in 2015.
She noted that the conviction of the 74-year-old Democrat came in a year in which Joseph Percoco, a once-close aide to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and former New York State Senate leader Dean Skelos, a Republican, also were convicted at corruption trials.
Until 2015, Cuomo, Silver and Skelos made up what was known in Albany as “three men in a room” who every year negotiated the state budget and important legislation behind closed doors.
The judge said the trials meant that “corruption cases have touched either directly or indirectly all of the infamous ‘three men in a room.’”
“This has to stop,” Caproni said. “New York has to get its act together.”
Before announcing the prison term and a $1.75 million fine, Caproni said Silver seemed to have aged more than would be normal in the last three years while his case has proceeded.
She said “further reflection” led her to the conclusion that the original sentence was longer than necessary.
Still, she said: “This crime was driven by unmitigated greed.”
True to their colours, Progs still act as if their shit doesn’t stink.
Lack of self-awareness is the Prog placemat.™
What goes around will eventually come around – – soon I hope.
“Like my daddy before me …”
Not only is New York a mire of corruption (and has been for two centuries), but Andy comes from a line of crooks, thugs, corruption, and murder.
And when the evidence finally points to him, he’ll skate – just like Brown of CA, Obola of Chicago, Durbin, Reid, Pelosi, and a host of others.
izlamo delenda est …
On CBS “News” Radio they have yet to report Silver’s party affiliation.
Kerry Kennedy got rid of Andrew, New Yorkers should also.
NY/NJ will never accuse Trump (NYC Homie) of corruption because he would take down hundreds of politicians. Maybe he will anyway…. 6 more years to toy with them…
This is what happens when there’s only crooks listed on the ballot to vote for. I call political racket team.
That does nothing seem like a sufficient sentence for betraying the people he was supposed to be representing. If he had given out some plastic straws she would have really screwed him. Make room for Andy.
Silver is a symptom of the problem of pay for play. We all know this racket has been going on for over a century. The corruption in Albany is not limited to one political party either. It exists in the elected branches as well as the bureaucracy. We have heard of the no show jobs and politically motivated hires as state workers. The corruption is rampant.
Cuomo (governor of Manhattan) did not receive his father’s magical oratorical abilities and has to rely on being a thug. He is a barely literate, anti upstate hack. He may play the ‘I care for upstate too!” card, but his appearances upstate are choreographed to the second so he can get as many photo ops as possible in the least amount of time. His enclave in Albany might as well be located in the big city for all the concerns he does not have for upstate.
If Cuomo could move the capitol to NYC he would just like he renamed the Tappan Zee bridge. By the way, Tappan Zee is a historical place name derived from Native American history. You will never hear the media repeat that fact. Cuomo dissed the Native Americans.
I could rant on but it is pointless for the most part. All we can do is dream of a split of New York state into two separate parts. Fly over upstate as its own entity and then New York City Metro area as the other. Only then will upstate get a fair shake.
Hip Hip Hooray!
GREAT news for us NYStaters, Monkey Face Jr. is my favorite politician to DISPISE, my two US Senators are running close behind…
BYE BYE Shelly, you corrupt prick bastard.
MAGA2016
KAG2020
Giving decent Italians a bad name.