Arjuna
.338 Win Mag
Sheldon Silver faces the music Friday for the second time to answer for his unbridled greed and corruption, but the former Albany kingpin’s lawyers think he still has a role to play in public life. How sick.
In a sentencing memorandum, Team Silver asked Judge Valerie Caproni to sentence him to a “meaningful” prison term — and then let him serve as a sort of public advocate.
By which they mean using “his unique skills to assist” the same New Yorkers he so grievously betrayed and ripped off, by helping them “navigate their way through the state bureaucrac
Better for the judge to listen to federal prosecutors, who are once again asking her to put Silver behind bars for a longer stretch than any other convicted New York pol — a sentence he has richly earned.
Indeed, Caproni already imposed a 12-year term after Silver’s original conviction in 2016. That verdict was overturned on appeal, but a second jury again found him guilty this past May.
Yet Silver still can’t bring himself to admit he did anything wrong. His lawyers say he “maintains that his conduct, while far from exemplary, did not cross the line of criminality.” But this, they add, doesn’t mean he “is not remorseful about his actions.”
Baloney: The only remorse Silver feels is for getting caught and then being held to account by a jury of his peers.
Yet he also has the gall to play for mercy by presenting himself as a broken man who can only hope he “will not die in prison.”
That’s up to a higher power. But Sheldon Silver deserves a long stretch in prison — with plenty of time to reflect on just how he betrayed the people of New York.
https://nypost.com/2018/07/25/throw-the-book-at-sheldon-silver/
In a sentencing memorandum, Team Silver asked Judge Valerie Caproni to sentence him to a “meaningful” prison term — and then let him serve as a sort of public advocate.
By which they mean using “his unique skills to assist” the same New Yorkers he so grievously betrayed and ripped off, by helping them “navigate their way through the state bureaucrac
Better for the judge to listen to federal prosecutors, who are once again asking her to put Silver behind bars for a longer stretch than any other convicted New York pol — a sentence he has richly earned.
Indeed, Caproni already imposed a 12-year term after Silver’s original conviction in 2016. That verdict was overturned on appeal, but a second jury again found him guilty this past May.
Yet Silver still can’t bring himself to admit he did anything wrong. His lawyers say he “maintains that his conduct, while far from exemplary, did not cross the line of criminality.” But this, they add, doesn’t mean he “is not remorseful about his actions.”
Baloney: The only remorse Silver feels is for getting caught and then being held to account by a jury of his peers.
Yet he also has the gall to play for mercy by presenting himself as a broken man who can only hope he “will not die in prison.”
That’s up to a higher power. But Sheldon Silver deserves a long stretch in prison — with plenty of time to reflect on just how he betrayed the people of New York.
https://nypost.com/2018/07/25/throw-the-book-at-sheldon-silver/
