In the News: Sheldon Silver Has Been Arrested on Federal Corruption Charges

January 22, 2015 Arts & Culture, Community News, Construction, Crime, People, Real Estate

stephanie-ruhle-5a••• Stephanie Ruhle of Bloomberg TV posed for a fashion shoot in her Tribeca duplex. —Le Curate

••• Kelly in the City posed on Harrison, to the delight of some guy.

••• “The powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, was arrested on federal corruption charges on Thursday.” —New York Times

••• The story of a model of the Queen Mary going from the South Street Seaport Museum to the actual Queen Mary. —New York Times and Wall Street Journal

••• “A man fatally shot himself in the head at the Thurgood Marshall federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan early Thursday, officials said. […] It was not immediately clear if the man shot himself within or outside the courthouse or why he was there.” —DNAinfo

••• Thousands of photos from the 30 Park Place topping out (including neat ones of the top of the Woolworth Building). —Curbed

Woolworth Building seen from 30 Park Place by Curbed

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3 Comments

  1. Liat
    January 22, 2015 • 6:25 pm

    I am sorry to hear this about Sheldon Silver. He has worked very hard for his downtown constituency and if these allegations are true, that’s a terrible thing he has done to us and to himself.

  2. Rohin
    January 22, 2015 • 8:34 pm

    Federal government is not in the business of making false allegations. This seems quite incriminating.

  3. will galison
    January 24, 2015 • 10:48 am

    Sheldon Silver singlehandedly placed the Chief Judge of New York into power; his lifelong friend, and protege, Jonathan Lippman,

    http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runnins…/…/wayne_barrett_h.php

    Is it possible that Sheldon Silver placed a corrupt judge into power to protect him from the consequences of his decades of criminality?

    More to the point, what are the chances that a career criminal like Silver would place an HONEST judge into the most powerful judicial seat in the State?

    It turns out there is also a criminal complaint pending before Preet Bharara regarding corruption and fraud in the nomination and confirmation of Judge Lippman. Perhaps Lippman will be the next to fall.

    http://www.judgejonathanlippman.blogspot.com