Former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted on all counts May 11 of using the influence of his office to enrich himself with $3.8 million in referral fees from providing funding for a cancer doctor’s medical research and persuading real-estate firms to use a childhood friend to have their tax assessments reduced.
The verdict, toward the tail end of the jury’s first full day of deliberations after beginning its discussions late the previous afternoon, came with stunning suddenness. U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni was just about to accept a guilty plea in an unrelated state corruption case from Peter Galbraith Kelly, who had been accused of bribing Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Governor Cuomo, after hearing a plea from a Bronx gang member in a felony-murder case.
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