Shelly Silver

Shelly Silver: I Acted In "Best Interest" Of Gropez Victims

New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver maintains that he believes that he'll be cleared of any wrongdoing in the Vito Lopez sex debacle, during which the speaker signed off on more than $100,000 in taxpayer funded hush money to sweep allegations of sexual misconduct against Lopez under the rug.He ... More >>

Vito Lopez Is Still An Assemblyman -- But Maybe Not For Long

Despite highly publicized accusations that he's a dirty, dirty old man, Democratic Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito "Gropez" Lopez won re-election to the Assembly on Tuesday. But the longtime pol dropped a bombshell on his supporters: this might be his last term -- in the Assembly, anyway."While I will con ... More >>

GOP Super PAC Gunning For Shelly Silver -- And Why It Won't Make A Bit Of Difference

A recently formed GOP Super PAC has Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver in its sights and says it will actively campaign -- and drop an estimated $1.5 million -- to see to it that he's not re-elected as Assembly speaker.The Super PAC -- which is being financially fueled by the group Americans for Real Ch ... More >>

NOW Outlines Expectations In JCOPE's Probe Of Vito Lopez's Pervy-Ness -- And Silver's Coverup

Assemblyman Vito Lopez is a grade-A pervert. That much we know (for example, he would prefer you not wear a bra to work, ladies). But the lengths to which Assembly leaders -- most notably Lopez's former pal/current Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver -- went to coverup Lopez's multiple gropings of young ... More >>

Shelly Silver's "Female" Cyber-Apologist Is Actually A Guy Named Bill

Embattled Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver has a "female" supporter who incessantly defends him against charges that he approved more than $100,000 in taxpayer money to coverup allegations of sexual misconduct made by multiple women against his old pal/current disgraced Assemblyman Vito Lopez.The Silv ... More >>

Prosecutors Investigating Shelly Silver's Kids Over Voter-Fraud Allegations

More bad news for embattled Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver: The Manhattan District Attorney's Office is reportedly looking into allegations of voter fraud against the speaker's children.As we reported earlier this week, Silver's kids are all voting in the powerful Democratic pol's district (presumab ... More >>

Tack Another $2,400 Onto Vito Lopez's (Taxpayer-Funded) Pervy-ness Tab

The taxpayer-funded tab to sweep allegations of sexual harassment by disgraced Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez under the rug is even bigger than originally anticipated, according to records released yesterday.In addition to the $103,000 Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver -- et al -- agreed to pay Lopez ... More >>

Sign (Toothless) Petition Calling For Shelly Silver's Resignation Right Here

Powerful Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver continues to catch heat for his coverup of sexual harassment allegations against his former pal, disgraced Assemblyman Vito Lopez, and now New York Republicans are circulating a petition calling for his resignation.Granted, it's only a petition -- ... More >>

Assemblyman Sheldon Silver Pestered By Yet Another Potential Felony

You can add alleged voter fraud to the growing list of potential felonies surrounding Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's re-election campaign -- but it probably won't even matter; he's Shelly Silver!It turns out that Silver's kids are all voting in the powerful speaker's district, presumably for thei ... More >>

Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver To Be Investigated For Vito Lopez Coverup

Apparently realizing that "it's always about the coverup," the Joint Commission On Public Ethics (JCOPE) announced last night that it's widening its probe of the sexual harassment allegations made against shamed Assemblyman Vito Lopez to include the more than $100,000 in taxpayer money Assembly Spea ... More >>

Senate Candidate/Former Assembly Staffer: "Nobody Listens" To Complaints Of Sexual Harassment In Silver's "Boys Club"

New York Post scribe Fred Dicker supposedly is the "dean of the Albany press corp." When he's not puckering up to the rump of Governor Andrew Cuomo, Dicker is pegged with the task of weeding out scandals and corruption at the highest levels of state government. That said, you'd think that if a forme ... More >>

Shelly Silver Off The Hook For (Taxpayer Funded) Coverup Of Vito Lopez Sex Scandal

Much to the dismay of the National Organization of Women, women's rights attorney Gloria Allred, Assembly candidate Frank Commisso Jr., and thousands of New Yorkers, we're sure, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is off the hook for his tax-payer funded coverup of allegations of sexual misconduct by hi ... More >>

David Soares, Who Had Sex With Young Staffer, Actually Asked To Investigate Lopez's Pervy-ness

Just so we're all on the same page: Albany County District Attorney David Soares admittedly had sex with a young female staffer. Shamed Assemblyman Vito Lopez is accused of trying to have sex with several young, female staffers. Soares now wants to join the team investigating allegations that Lopez ... More >>

New York GOP Owes Assemblyman Vito "Gropez" Lopez A Thank You For His Alleged Pervy-ness

New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox has issued three statements in the past 24 hours -- which is three more than he's issued in the past two weeks -- each of which references shamed Democratic Assemblyman Vito Lopez's pervy-ness.In each statement, Cox seems outraged that Lopez allegedly is a d ... More >>

David Soares, New Prosecutor In Vito Lopez Pervy-ness Case, Had Sex With Young Staffer

The Associated Press is reporting this afternoon that a second special prosecutor has signed on to investigate allegations that shamed Assemblyman Vito Lopez sexually harassed several young, female staffers. What the AP fails to mention is that the new special prosecutor has his own less-than-admira ... More >>

Shelly Silver Wants Pervy Assemblyman Vito Lopez To Call It A Career

In an apparent attempt to save a little face, Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says he's asked disgraced Assemblyman Vito Lopez to quit his job in the wake of the ongoing sex scandal that's plaguing both pols.Lopez, as you know, has a habit of allegedly sexually harassing young, female sta ... More >>

Defying Silver: Assembly Wannabe Frank Commisso's Cojones Could Spell Political Suicide

Frank Commisso Jr. currently serves on the Albany Common Council representing the city's 15th Ward. He's also running for Assembly as a Democrat -- and may have just committed political suicide.Enter Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the most powerful politicians in New York, who currently is ... More >>

Vito Lopez In Sex And The Assembly: How To Sweep A Scandal Under The Rug

It's fairly well known at this point that 71-year-old disgraced Assemblyman Vito Lopez is a dirty, dirty old man -- multiple women have filed complaints against him alleging various acts of sexual misconduct; former female staffers describe Lopez's office as a place where there is a "culture" that p ... More >>

Brooklyn D.A. Requests Special Prosecutor To Investigate Assemblyman Vito Lopez's Pervy-ness

Things just went from incredibly bad to incredibly worse for shamed Assemblyman Vito Lopez.Not only has he been "disciplined" by Democratic Assembly leader Sheldon Silver, but he could potentially face criminal charges for several claims of alleged pervy-ness made against him by multiple female staf ... More >>

Ladies, Assemblyman Vito Lopez Would Prefer You Not Wear A Bra To Work

Former female staffers of shamed Assemblyman Vito Lopez are coming out of the woodwork to give accounts of what it's like working for the now former chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party.Here's the gist of their accounts: Lopez likes short skirts, "well endowed" women, and -- apparently channeli ... More >>

Carl Paladino Says Goodbye With His Best Lester Maddox Imitation

​Late last night Carl Paladino came on the air for his final hurrah and to admit defeat by Andrew Cuomo. He choked back tears, snarled at the media, and gave us one final reminder that -- no matter how much great theater he brought to this race -- we should count our blessings that we live in ... More >>

Seven at Seven: Would-Be Governors Debate Tonight

​New Yorkers get their first look at The Magnificent Seven gubernatorial candidates tonight, and if you can't find someone to embrace on this stage then you're a choosy beggar who doesn't even deserve true democracy and you might as well head straight for Tehran. The assortment includes a bos ... More >>

Carl Paladino May Be Unsafe At Any Speed: Now it's OSHA Fines on His Buildings

Morgan Schweitzer​Carl Paladino marked his pledge to turn down his bile dial yesterday by calling Shelly Silver a "criminal" - a word that even bothered the Post's editorial page which has been calling for Silver's head for years. Say this for Buffalo's Have-Mouth-Will-Travel Paladin: He's a n ... More >>

Shelly Silver is 'the Enemy of Reform,' but his Law Firm's Cash is Still Good as Gold for Kathleen Rice

​File this one one away under the "Unsolved Mysteries" of this election season: Try to follow: Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver is the key symbol of Albany hypocrisy. Only yesterday, Ed Koch, the newly re-born reform banner waver, was declaiming him at City Hall. "He is the enemy of reform," ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Draws Praise for the Same Budget Decisions That Reap Tabloid Ridicule for Shelly Silver

The recently passed Bloomberg and state legislative budgets each contained precisely the same, optimistic assumption that New York would get hundreds of millions of additional federal Medicaid funds even though the bill to provide the windfall was stalled in Congress. The Daily News said Bloomber ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo's Biggest Rival Won't Be the G.O.P.

It's Shelly Silver and the old-school Dems in his race to Governor

Merryl Tisch, State Schools Chancellor, Doesn't Seem Too Worked Up About Losing Federal Funds

Go for the money, Merryl!​State schools chancellor and role model Merryl Tisch certainly sounded like she was showing New York's millions of public school kids how to throw in the towel Wednesday night. She told NY1's Lindsey Christ that the state might not even submit an applicat ... More >>

Paterson Hands Control of Governors Island to City

​New York's next hot tourist destination will have 87 acres of green space, a view of the Manhattan skyline, and a moat. Governor Paterson announced today that the state is turning over control of development on a 150-acre patch of Governors Island to the Governors Island Operating Entity, w ... More >>

Senate's John Sampson Scores Big With Law Firm

​It's good to be the king! State senate leader John Sampson - who only a few months was just another Court Street lawyer scurrying for cases in Brooklyn - has hit the big time. The Post reports that the Democratic majority leader is now "of counsel" to one of the state's biggest personal injur ... More >>

Post Suddenly Finds Nemesis Shelly Silver "The Last Adult in Albany"

Today the Post gives Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver an op-ed, "New York state must cut spending," in which the Speaker tells us (as is his wont) how hard the assembly is working, and that as "families throughout our state are making painful but necessary choices every day. Albany must do the same. ... More >>

Poll: Voters Hate Albany, But Are Less Inclined Toward Revolution Now

Why's there a poll out on primary day? The new Marist Poll is not about present candidates, but about the state senate, and as was seen in other recent polls, the state's voters hate their elected representatives. 70 percent remain "angry" about this summer's Albany Coup, 68 percent want "major chan ... More >>

District 1 Council Race: The Skinny on Challenger Pete Gleason

This article was reported and written by Wayne Barrett and Georgia Bobley. In the glut of City Council races this season, one candidate stands above the crowd of unknowns, ex-firefighter Peter Gleason, who's challenging downtown incumbent Alan Gerson. Gleason has magically emerged from the shadows ... More >>

Barrett: Dems Discuss Restricting Bloomberg's School Control

Assembly Democrats discussed mayoral school control for about four and a half hours yesterday, and virtually none of the dozens of members who spoke during the closed party conference supported continuing Bloomberg's control of city schools in its present form.    Speaker Shelly Silve ... More >>

Paterson Duped Again: Shelly Silver Gets Childhood Pal Jonathan Lippman State's Top Courts Job

Year of the Tenant? Don't Bet Your Rent On It.

Assembly controller Shelly Silver declared this week that 2009 would be "the year of the tenant" Silver's proclamations aside, there's a lot state government can do to help the rent-paying classes downstate. On top of the list, says David King in a Gotham Gazette piece, would be to pass a bill that ... More >>

Minutemen Take Border Battle to 39th Street

Letters

Mayoral Race: Stadium Was Pre-Game Show

I'll Be Your Mirror

Art-Star Self-Portraits and DIY Hacking

Boys Gone Wild

In Albany, Rape, Punch-Outs, and Shutdowns Are All a Baffling Blur

Prelude to a Campaign?

Mayor Mike and Potential Foes Test Union Waters

Way to Go, Joe

Bruno Dumps Pataki, Sticks With Union Allies

Pataki's Class Bias

Guv Seeks Sacrifice From Average New Yorkers, Protects High-End Friends

Bloomberg at the Crossroads

With a Budget That Will Define Him, Mayor Mike Pushes Pataki, Unions

Senate for Sale

GOP Uses Public Pots of Gold to Entice Converts

The Albany Glacier

While Everything Else Changes, the State Legislature Remains Frozen in Time

Loft Law Limbo

Artists Fret As Albany Fiddles

Train Runs Over Rudy

Mayor Stands Up For City, Gets Clobbered By Runaway Commuter Tax Cut

Ducking Diallo

White Pols and Press Tread Lightly on Rudy Role in Cop Brutality

Becoming 'Dem-ato'

Schumer Morphs Into Alfonse: Fires Assault Weapon at Green, and Praises His Own Miss