The morning after the revelation that Eric Schneiderman had been physically abusive to four women he dated led to his swift resignation as State Attorney General, a visit to ex-Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver’s retrial on corruption charges seemed like a return to a gentler, if not necessarily more-innocent, time of alleged wrongdoing by state officials.
Mr. Silver was no stranger to bad behavior in the realm of mistreatment of women, but it was in the role of trying to sweep away the sexual assaults committed by then-Assembly Counsel Michael Boxley and the harassment engaged in by the late Assemblyman Vito Lopez.
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