Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was on Monday sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for his role in a bribery scheme involving trading legislative favors to real estate developers in exchange for kickbacks funneled through a law firm.
Silver heard his sentence in person in a Manhattan courtroom, in which Judge Valerie Caproni rejected the 76-year-old Democrat’s pleas to be spared jail and additionally imposed a $1 million fine.
