NEW YORK -- Sheldon Silver, the longtime leader of the New York state Assembly, will relinquish the position he has held for 21 years in the wake of federal corruption charges, a top lawmaker ...

NEW YORK -- Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver abused his position as one of the most powerful men in state government to give preferential professional treatment to two women with whom ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will be returned to federal prison after federal authorities denied him home confinement, a person familiar with the matter told The ...

Sheldon Silver, the longtime leader of the New York state Assembly, agreed to give up the position he has held for 21 years in the wake of federal corruption charges, a top lawmaker announced Tuesday.

NEW YORK (AP) -- An appeals court has upheld former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's corruption conviction but ordered a resentencing after reversing his conviction on some charges. The ...

ALBANY — Critics of the New York Legislature’s chronic corruption problem say a federal court’s decision to overturn the conviction of ex-Speaker Sheldon Silver is proof that the state can’t count ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has died while serving a prison sentence in a corruption case. The federal Bureau of Prisons said Silver died Monday. The agency ...

(AP) -- Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted Monday in a $5 million corruption case that took down one of New York's most powerful politicians and stunned a capital that had ...