Sheldon Silver, former NY Assembly speaker, gets prison furlough

Published on May 6, 2021

Silver, 77, an Orthodox Jew who for two decades was among the most powerful men in the state, was furloughed under a measure meant to control the spread of coronavirus in prison
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