Sheldon Silver, Disgraced Assembly Speaker, Is Furloughed From Prison
The New York Times
The longtime Democratic leader was released to home confinement after less than a year of a six-and-a-half year sentence on corruption charges.
Sheldon Silver, the former Assembly Democratic speaker who once dominated New York State politics only to have his career end in a conviction on federal corruption charges, was released from prison on Tuesday as he awaits a decision on whether he can complete his sentence at home. Mr. Silver, 77, had been in prison for less than a year of a six-and-a-half-year sentence when federal officials, using the leeway afforded them because of the coronavirus pandemic, determined that he was eligible to be furloughed while they consider his request to serve the rest of his sentence under home confinement. A spokesman for the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan, which prosecuted the case against Mr. Silver, said on Tuesday that the office had been in contact with the federal Bureau of Prisons to strongly oppose his possible release.More Related News