The seven-day period that ended Jan. 25 was not one of Sheldon Silver's better weeks.
After learning Jan. 19 that he was not on the list of 100-plus people who received last-minute pardons from President Trump—as had initially been expected—the former Speaker of the Assembly six days later was informed that the U.S. Supreme Court would not hear his appeal of a conviction on public-corruption charges that has him serving 6 1/2 years in a Federal prison in upstate New York.
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