sheldon silver

ALBANY — New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin resigned Tuesday in the wake of his arrest in a federal corruption investigation, Gov. Kathy Hochul said, cr...

ALBANY (TNS) — Declining to speak ill of the dead is probably a good rule of thumb and, generally speaking, the honorable path. But different standard...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silve r will be returned to federal prison after federal authorities denied him home confin...

NEW YORK — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been released from a federal prison on furlough while he awaits potential placement to ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s appeal of a 6 1/2-year corruption sentence. Si...

NEW YORK — Prosecutors urged a judge Wednesday to reject an effort to delay or eliminate a prison sentence for the first member of Congress to endorse...

ALBANY (TNS ) — A federal prison in Orange County is reuniting some once-notable New York political heavyweights. More than five years after being cha...

NEW YORK — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced Monday to 6 1/2 years in prison in the corruption case that drove him from po...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court judge says the former leader of New York's Assembly can stay out of prison until a judicial panel decides whet...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sheldon Silver, the former New York Assembly speaker who brokered legislative deals for two decades before corruption charges abruptly...

NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York state Senate leader and his son were convicted on Tuesday of extortion, wire fraud and bribery charges of pressuring...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York state Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son were granted new trials Tuesday in their corruption case, with a federal a...

NEW YORK (AP) — The corruption conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was overturned Thursday by a federal appeals court that found suff...