NEW YORK -- Lawyers offered a federal jury on Tuesday two starkly different portrayals of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver - one as a symbol of greed and corruption in Albany, the other ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once one of New York’s most powerful politicians, was convicted Monday of charges that he traded favors to earn $5 million illegally ...

ALBANY — Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once one of New York's most powerful politicians, was sentenced Friday to seven years in federal prison for taking in $4 million in illicit payments ...

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, whose remarkable political career ended in disgrace in 2015 due to high-profile corruption charges, had his conviction overturned on Thursday, according to ...

ALBANY— The speaker of the state Assembly fought to keep his position amid federal corruption charges Monday with a plan to temporarily cede power to five lieutenants while contenders and critics ...

ALBANY -- Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was found guilty on all seven counts of his federal indictment by a jury Monday afternoon.The guilty verdict is a stunning end to the career of one of ...

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was indicted on Thursday by a grand jury for three counts of extortion and mail and wire fraud. When Silver was arrested on Jan. 22, the complaint issued by U.S.

NEW YORK -- Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver abused his position as one of the most powerful men in state government to give preferential professional treatment to two women with whom ...

Sheldon Silver is an American politician who served as a member of the New York State Assembly from 1977 to 2015, representing Lower Manhattan. Born on February 13, 1944, he is a member of the ...

Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the state’s most powerful politicians for two decades, pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges on Tuesday. Silver, 71, who ...

A juror considering whether to convict one of New York’s most powerful politicians of corruption on Monday asked to be removed from the jury, the second such request made to the judge in the ...