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Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is getting released to home confinement after serving less than a year of the six-and-a-half year sentence for corruption he began last August.
The Yeshiva World first reported this morning that Silver would be released under the CARES Act, which allows federal inmates to be released to home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic. “At this time the family is asking for privacy to deal with Mr. Silver s medical issues which he has some serious ones that are ongoing,” Rabbi Akiva Homnick of the criminal justice advocacy group Pidyon Shvuyai Yisroel told City & State, citing a conversation with an unnamed family member of the former speaker. “He s expected home momentarily.”
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Alert: AP source: Ex-NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver released from federal prison on furlough, awaiting home confinement
May 4, 2021
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AP source: Sheldon Silver released from prison on furlough
NEW YORK Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been released from a federal prison on furlough while he awaits potential placement to home confinement, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.Silver, 77, began serving his more than six-year sentence at a federal prison in Otisville, New York, in August after years of fending off going behind bars in a corruption case. He has been released to his home while awa…
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AP source: Ex-NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver released from federal prison on furlough, awaiting home confinement
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WASHINGTON (AP) AP source: Ex-NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver released from federal prison on furlough, awaiting home confinement.
As we reported yesterday, six remaining tenants at 400 Grand Street, which will be demolished next year to make way for the Essex Crossing project, are fighting for relocation rights. But another tenant in the building, the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy, is also concerned about its future.
400 Grand Street.
The conservancy, part of the United Jewish Council of the East Side, established its first dedicated home in a 650 square foot storefront at 400 Grand in 2011. The space had previously been occupied by Ruby’s Fruits, a Lower East Side institution. But the building will likely be emptied and torn down next year in preparation for new residential and commercial development set to rise on nine long-neglected sites in the former Seward Park Urban Renewal Area.