Crooks like Carl Kruger and Pedro Espada are easy to spot. It may take decades, but it seems just a matter of time before the law catches up to them.
Shelly Silver always seemed too bright to be that stupid, biding his time and then quietly wielding and consolidating power, an Assembly Speaker who was never outspoken but rarely outmaneuvered. He’s not the first elected official, though, who surprised many who knew him—and possibly himself—by winding up in Federal Court early one morning to answer charges that could send him to prison.
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