Disgraced pol Sheldon Silver transferred to prison medical facility

Disgraced ex-state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was transferred from a federal prison in New York to a medical facility run by the Bureau of Prisons in Massachusetts, according to information on the agency’s website.

Silver is now being held at Federal Medical Facility, Devens, a lockup about 37 miles west of Boston, according to the BOP’s website. The agency did not immediately respond to request for comment about his transfer.