Fausto “Fuzzy” Mamori had no sooner gotten to the other side of the table in the visitors’ room of the Federal lock-up he uses as a mailing address when he exclaimed, “Seven years? Are you kidding me?”
I realized immediately he was referring to the prison term former Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver had been sentenced to a few weeks earlier, which trial Judge Valerie Caproni had marked down from the 12-year scholarship she awarded him for his first conviction, the one that got overturned because of a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that redefined the public-corruption standards.
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