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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will be returned to federal prison after federal authorities denied him home confinement, a person familiar with the matter told The ...

NEW YORK -- There was the assemblyman who took a bribe from a carnival promoter. The former Senate leader accused of using envelopes stuffed with cash to grease his bid for New York City mayor. Or the ...

As the first week of New York’s legislative session began, lines began to be drawn between the Democratic majority in the Assembly and the Republican majority in the Senate over Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ...

NEW YORK -- Sheldon Silver, the longtime leader of the New York state Assembly, will relinquish the position he has held for 21 years in the wake of federal corruption charges, a top lawmaker ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has died while serving a prison sentence in a corruption case. The federal Bureau of Prisons said Silver died Monday. The agency ...

Sheldon Silver, the longtime leader of the New York state Assembly, agreed to give up the position he has held for 21 years in the wake of federal corruption charges, a top lawmaker announced Tuesday.

NEW YORK — A federal appeals court Tuesday partially overturned the 2018 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, once the powerful speaker of the New York state Assembly, but allowed much of the ...

A son-in-law of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was charged with defrauding investors out of $7 million in a Ponzi scheme, according to a federal complaint. Marcello Trebitsch appeared ...

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