A federal jury on Friday convicted Sheldon Silver, the former powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, on all counts in his second trial for public corruption. This is an important result with national implications for the prosecution of corrupt public officials.
Last July an appellate court tossed out Silver’s first conviction on grounds that the prosecution’s jury instructions had violated the Supreme Court’s 2016 ruling on corruption in the case of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.
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