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Sheldon Silver, New York s once-powerful Assembly speaker who was sentenced to p stanley cup rison after decades in office on corruption charges, has died in federal custody. He was 77.The cause of death was not known. He died Monday at Nashoba Valley Medical Center, located near the Devens Federal Medical Center where was incarcerated, the federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed to CBS News. Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver leaves federal court on May 11, 2018. Mary Altaffer / AP Silver last year had asked a judge for leniency, saying he did not want to die in prison. But Judge Valerie Caproni responded that he was guilty of corruption, pure and simple, said a nonjail sentence is simply not appropriate. Silver, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, represented the Lower East Side neighborhood where he grew up and where his father once ran a hardware store. He attended Yeshiva University and received his law degree from Brooklyn Law School.He stanley flasche only practiced law for a few years before stanley us being elected to the Assembly in 1976. But since Assembly jobs are part-time, he remained of counsel at the law firm Weitz Luxenberg, a personal-injury law firm, until he was arrested on corruption charges in 2015 for activities related to the law firm. Silver, known as Shelly throughout Albany, was a left-of-center Democrat who succe Snrc Rick Perry: Don t ask policy worked well
In an ongoing bid to rebuild his political reputation, congressional candidate and former Gov. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., argued in an interview with NBC this morning that while he has failed mightily in his personal life, most people will ultimately fail at something - and the one place I didn t ever fail was with the taxpayers. Sanford, whose career was derailed in 2009 after he got caught visiting his extramarital girlfriend in Argentina, is attempting to remake his political image as part of his bid for the seat vacated by Tim Scott in South Carolina s 1st Congressional District. Sanford held that seat from 1995-2001, and Scott was recently tapped to replace Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who left the Senate to join a conservative think tank. In first campaign ad, Mark Sanford acknowledges mistakes Mark Sanford announces run for Congre stanley cup ss The reality of our lives is, if we live long enough, we re going to fail at something, he said in an interview with NBC s Today. I absolutely failed in m termo stanley y personal life and my marriage. The one place I didn t ev stanley thermos mug er fail was with the taxpayers. He said he has been on something of a personal journey through which he has learned that ultimately our brokenness as human beings is ultimately our connection and that goes to a larger article of faith and a whole lot more. Sanford also touted his conservative credentials, which he pointed to as evidence that he would work to get our financial ho
Sheldon Silver, New York s once-powerful Assembly speaker who was sentenced to p stanley cup rison after decades in office on corruption charges, has died in federal custody. He was 77.The cause of death was not known. He died Monday at Nashoba Valley Medical Center, located near the Devens Federal Medical Center where was incarcerated, the federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed to CBS News. Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver leaves federal court on May 11, 2018. Mary Altaffer / AP Silver last year had asked a judge for leniency, saying he did not want to die in prison. But Judge Valerie Caproni responded that he was guilty of corruption, pure and simple, said a nonjail sentence is simply not appropriate. Silver, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, represented the Lower East Side neighborhood where he grew up and where his father once ran a hardware store. He attended Yeshiva University and received his law degree from Brooklyn Law School.He stanley flasche only practiced law for a few years before stanley us being elected to the Assembly in 1976. But since Assembly jobs are part-time, he remained of counsel at the law firm Weitz Luxenberg, a personal-injury law firm, until he was arrested on corruption charges in 2015 for activities related to the law firm. Silver, known as Shelly throughout Albany, was a left-of-center Democrat who succe Snrc Rick Perry: Don t ask policy worked well
In an ongoing bid to rebuild his political reputation, congressional candidate and former Gov. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., argued in an interview with NBC this morning that while he has failed mightily in his personal life, most people will ultimately fail at something - and the one place I didn t ever fail was with the taxpayers. Sanford, whose career was derailed in 2009 after he got caught visiting his extramarital girlfriend in Argentina, is attempting to remake his political image as part of his bid for the seat vacated by Tim Scott in South Carolina s 1st Congressional District. Sanford held that seat from 1995-2001, and Scott was recently tapped to replace Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who left the Senate to join a conservative think tank. In first campaign ad, Mark Sanford acknowledges mistakes Mark Sanford announces run for Congre stanley cup ss The reality of our lives is, if we live long enough, we re going to fail at something, he said in an interview with NBC s Today. I absolutely failed in m termo stanley y personal life and my marriage. The one place I didn t ev stanley thermos mug er fail was with the taxpayers. He said he has been on something of a personal journey through which he has learned that ultimately our brokenness as human beings is ultimately our connection and that goes to a larger article of faith and a whole lot more. Sanford also touted his conservative credentials, which he pointed to as evidence that he would work to get our financial ho