Joseph Ax
By Joseph Ax
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Fast Forward Sheldon Silver Accused of ‘Lining His Pockets’ as Trial Kicks Off
Sheldon Silver, one of New York State’s most influential lawmakers for two decades, abused his position to earn millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks, federal prosecutors told a jury on Tuesday. “This is a case about a powerful politician who betrayed those he was supposed to serve in order to line his own pockets,” Assistant…
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Fast Forward ‘Nazi’ Long Island Suburb Accused of Race Bias
A New York suburb that was established by Nazi sympathizers in the years leading up to World War Two still uses discriminatory housing practices to ensure its residents remain white, according to a lawsuit filed this week. A couple who lived in Yaphank, a hamlet of 6,000 about 65 miles (105 km) east of New…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Silver Loses Bid To Toss Corruption Case
Sheldon Silver, the once-powerful former leader of the New York State assembly, lost his bid to have federal corruption charges against him dismissed on Friday for the second time. “None of Silver’s arguments is persuasive,” U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan wrote in rejecting Silver’s motion to throw the case out. Silver, 71, is…
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Fast Forward Yiddish Chit-Chat Tapes Force Mistrial in Sprawling New York Corruption Case
(Reuters) — A U.S. judge declared a mistrial in the case against a New York state senator accused of trying to buy his way onto the Republican ticket in the 2013 New York City mayoral race, lawyers in the case said. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas in White Plains, New York, scuttled the trial of…
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