Sentences with phrase «silver reigned over»
This time a year ago, Sheldon Silver reigned over the State Assembly with an iron fist.
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And there's always the possibility that Silver — whose lengthy tenure, Ent - ish demeanor and top - down reign over his house made him into a caricature of a corrupt state politician — could be acquitted at a new trial.
Mr. Silver, 71, a Democrat who reigned over Albany as speaker for more than two decades, was found guilty today today of fraud, extortion and money laundering charges brought by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
One page could have sufficed, so long as that page called for the ouster of the man who has reigned over the degradation (as Andrew referred to it) of state government: the speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver.
Disgraced ex-Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's long reign in Lower Manhattan is finally over — voters booted his favored successor from his old seat tonight, instead picking a relative newcomer to the district supported by much of the larger Democratic establishment.