Combating corruption/ U.S.A.
Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was
indicted Thursday on corruption charges by a grand jury after he was arrested
Jan. 22 for allegedly pocketing $4 million in a kickback scheme with two law
firms over a decade.
Silve, 71, a Manhattan Democrat, was indicted on three
charges: honest services mail fraud, honest services wire fraud and extortion
under the color of his official duties.
The indictment said that since 2000, Silver
"engaged in a secret and corrupt scheme to deprive the citizens of the
state of his honest services as an elected legislator and as speaker of the
Assembly by using the power and influence of his official position to obtain
for himself millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate
income earned by Silver as a private attorney."
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