Not exact matches
Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's retrial on corruption charges is scheduled to begin Monday in federal court in Manhattan, but his new shot at vindication is expected to be a virtual carbon copy
of the 2015
version that ended in his conviction and a 12 - year
prison sentence.
(Their memorandum is a truncated
version of a report on
sentencing commissions to be published in July by the
Prison Reform Trust.)
A conviction under the state's
version of the federal RICO statute, known as the New York Enterprise Corruption Law, can result in a
sentence of up to 25 years in state
prison, not to mention significant fines and asset forfeiture to make restitution.
In fact, a conviction under the New York Enterprise Corruption Law — the state's
version of the federal RICO statute, can result in a state
prison sentence of up to 25 years, significant fines, asset forfeiture, restitution and more.