NEW YORK -- Lawyers offered a federal jury on Tuesday two starkly different portrayals of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver - one as a symbol of greed and corruption in Albany, the other ...

ALBANY -- Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was found guilty on all seven counts of his federal indictment by a jury Monday afternoon.The guilty verdict is a stunning end to the career of one of ...

A juror considering whether to convict one of New York’s most powerful politicians of corruption on Monday asked to be removed from the jury, the second such request made to the judge in the ...

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been charged with five counts of corruption by U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara. In the criminal complaint, it alleges that Silver pocketed ...

Sheldon Silver is an American politician who served as a member of the New York State Assembly from 1977 to 2015, representing Lower Manhattan. Born on February 13, 1944, he is a member of the ...

Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver lost a bid on Friday to dismiss the federal corruption charges he faces due to public statements a top prosecutor made that the once-powerful ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has died while serving a prison sentence in a corruption case. The federal Bureau of Prisons said Silver died Monday. The agency ...

ALBANY — Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once one of New York's most powerful politicians, was sentenced Friday to seven years in federal prison for taking in $4 million in illicit payments ...