Throw the Book at Sheldon Silver

[Robin]

Yeah, I'm remorseful that you were ever a NYS assemblyman let alone speaker, and I'm remorseful that you have screwed the citizens of this state, both financially and more importantly the loss of our God given rights that you have stolen from us you POS. 7 is not enough for what you have done.
Robin

 

[Cooolone]

I could hack 7 years for $3 million...

WTF!

If I robbed a bank and got away with 4 million I would be facing 20 years... How the hell can someone betray the public's trust to their own advantage and profit from it? Simply amazing... Just click your heels together 3x and repeat, there's No Place like home...

Nothing is real any more!

 

[Bigfoot]

Slimeball Silver got a break... ya don't say.

This is my surprised face.



Actually the way things work here in NY.
I'm kind of surprised that Silver got that much.

I kind of figured a lot of money would change hands behind closed doors and this would just go away.

 

[masterswimmer]

So they're appealing the verdict AGAIN.

Translation..... no jail time AGAIN while the appeals process slogs through the system.

Translation.....no jail time for at least another couple of years, same as last appeal.

Translation.... no jail time while he creeps closer to his imminent meeting with the grim reaper.

Translation.... there are enough courts and appeals to keep Shelly out of prison until said Mr Reaper claims this convicted (multiple times) felon.

FUSS, you and your high falutin attorney obviously know how to game the system and know you'll never meet your match.com life partner Bubba.

FUSS

 

[STS556]

I have read many times that rape in prison is unavoidable. 7 years is a long time for Shelly to get his asshole streched out a bit because you know damn well he will be someones bitch.

 

[masterswimmer]

I have read many times that rape in prison is unavoidable. 7 years is a long time for Shelly to get his asshole streched out a bit because you know damn well he will be someones bitch.

Sheldon Silver will never ever see the inside of a jail cell. Unless of course that POS watches The Shawshank Redemption.

FUSS

 

[oc shooter]

will be very surprised if he services any time at all

 

[Robin]

Meanwhile, he is giving statements OUTSIDE the court house. Some poor dip shit forgets his court date for traffic ticket is hauled away in cuffs. Yeah right, equal protection under the law. Fuck this corrupt state and all the dirty fucking politicians that suck the blood out of us all. Fuck you cumo you dirty piece of shit and all the scum sucking pigs that prop you up. HEY, to the dick head that monitors this site, fuck you too.
Robin

 

[ArmedCorgi]

So they're appealing the verdict AGAIN.

Translation..... no jail time AGAIN while the appeals process slogs through the system.

Translation.....no jail time for at least another couple of years, same as last appeal.

Translation.... no jail time while he creeps closer to his imminent meeting with the grim reaper.

Translation.... there are enough courts and appeals to keep Shelly out of prison until said Mr Reaper claims this convicted (multiple times) felon.

FUSS, you and your high falutin attorney obviously know how to game the system and know you'll never meet your match.com life partner Bubba.

FUSS

Taking advantage of our JustUS system the way only a wealthy person could.

 

[Jackalope]

He should be hanging from a light pole, along with his attorney.

 

[Acer-m14]

Silver also spoke at the sentencing, saying that he is “extremely, extremely remorseful” for having “brought out a great deal of distrust in NY’s government.”

“I fear that I will continue to be ridiculed and disdained,” he said.

then start naming name you old thieving fuck

 

[misunderestimated]

Why no mention of when he has to report to prison

 

[Arjuna]

Why no mention of when he has to report to prison

Apparently The Scum doesn't have to, what a fucking system we've got -

Sheldon Silver got a nice, five-year discount at his corruption resentencing on Friday when a federal judge ordered he spend just seven years in prison for bribe-taking — but the disgraced former state Assembly speaker still didn’t have to turn himself in.

Instead, Silver, 74, stays loose pending appeal, free on the same $200,000 bail that he posted when he was first arrested in January 2015 for pocketing nearly $4  million in payola from a Columbia University cancer researcher and two real-estate developers.

“I personally believe Mr. Silver knows in his heart of hearts that what he did was both venal and criminal,” Manhattan federal Judge Valerie Caproni told him. “That is why he will spend much of his golden years in prison.”

But to date Silver has yet to spend a night in custody, remaining free just as he had during his first trial and conviction and his first sentencing and then his successful 2017 appeal and May retrial and conviction.

https://nypost.com/2018/07/27/sheldon-silver-gets-to-remain-free-on-bail-pending-appeal/

 

[livingston]

Sheldon Silver catches yet another break

Sheldon Silver caught yet another huge break Friday: The federal judge who’d previously sentenced him to 12 years in prison for corruption instead opted to set his new term at just seven years.

That’s a huge loss for New Yorkers — and for the hope that his penalty would send a clear warning to all the pols still in office.

An appeals court tossed the onetime Assembly speaker’s original conviction after a US Supreme Court ruling narrowed the definition of corruption. That also vacated Judge Valerie Caproni’s original sentence.

But even under the new guidelines, a second jury found that Silver illicitly pocketed at least $4 million by trading on his public office for a decade.

It must be nice to benefit from a narrower definition of corruption. And no matter how you slice it, Silver was one of the more corrupt figures in recent New York history. (We have to couch those descriptions a bit because, well… this is New York we’re talking about. You’ve got a long road to run before you top some of our most corrupt figures from history.)

So how much of a benefit will this be to the 74-year-old convict? Seven years is still nothing to sneeze at when you’re that old, but it’s doubtful that he’ll spend anywhere near that much time behind bars. A couple of attorneys I asked about this agreed that Silver will very likely only do three or possibly even two years in prison before being moved to some sort of house arrest/probation situation. He clearly had enough money to pay the fines imposed on him. (Go figure, huh?) After that, assuming he has that much life left to him, it will be back to retirement and life as usual.

So, returning to the question posed by the NY Post editorial board, what sort of message are we sending to the rest of the state’s politicians? Silver rose to power inside of a corrupt system and quickly mastered the trade. He was on top for a very long time, enjoying the many perquisites of his position. And he stayed ahead of the law for seven decades. After all that, he may wind up doing less than a handful of years in jail.

New York currently has a governor and a mayor in its largest city who are surrounded by a circus of corruption trials which have taken down their donors, aides and close associates. And yet they somehow manage to keep on keeping on without ever being caught up. It seems to me that the real message from all of this is that in New York politics, corruption is big business and business is still very, very good.

Sheldon Silver catches yet another break
Tags:New Yorkprisonsentencing

 

[BDinPutnam]

Why no mention of when he has to report to prison

Because he gets another crack at the appeal apple because this is a different conviction.

Rather let nine scumbags go than convict one innocent man.

Bedrock of our system.

 

[GOYABEAN]

Keeping him local Disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker could wind up in Orange County