How Sheldon Silver’s Pardon Was Scuttled

“When President Donald Trump was reported to be considering clemency for former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver this month, it touched off a political clash played out behind the scenes in Washington and in New York,” Newsday reports.

“On Jan. 19, the White House had contacted Silver’s wife of more than 40 years, Rosa, at their Lower East Side apartment… The Trump administration advised her to prepare to pick up her husband at the Otisville Federal Correctional Institution in Orange County as soon as the next day.”

“The next morning, on Jan. 20, Silver’s clemency bid was scuttled.”