What is Sheldon Silver?
[[File:NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (6162420311).jpg|right|200px]] '''Sheldon Silver''' (February 13, 1944 – January 24, 2022) was an American [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] politician, lawyer, and convicted [[felon]]. He was [[Speaker of the New York State Assembly]] from 1994 to 2015. He was a member of the [[New York State Assembly]] from 1977 to 2015. Silver was born in [[New York City]]. Silver was arrested on federal [[corruption]] charges in early 2015, and resigned as Speaker of the Assembly shortly afterward. At his trial that November, he was convicted of all charges. Silver was resentenced in July 2020 to {{frac|6|1|2}} years in prison. Silver died on January 24, 2022 at a prison hospital in [[Ayer, Massachusetts]] from problems caused by [[kidney disease]], aged 77.<ref>{{cite web|last=Parsnow|first=Luke|title=Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver dies at 77|publisher=Spectrum News NY1|url=https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/politics/2022/01/24/former-ny-assembly-speaker-sheldon-silver-dies-at-77|date=24 January 2022|access-date=24 January 2022}}</ref><ref name = NYTObit>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/nyregion/sheldon-silver-dead.html|title = Sheldon Silver, Former N.Y. Assembly Speaker, Dies at 77|work = [[The New York Times]]|last1 = McKinley|first1 = Jesse|last2 = Ferré-Sadurní|first2 = Luis|date = January 24, 2022|accessdate = January 24, 2022|url-access = limited}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Silver, Sheldon}} [[Category:1944 births]] [[Category:2022 deaths]] [[Category:State legislators of the United States]] [[Category:Politicians from New York City]] [[Category:Lawyers from New York City]] [[Category:Criminals from New York City]] [[Category:People who died in prison custody in the United States]] [[Category:Deaths from kidney disease]] [[Category:Democratic Party (United States) politicians]] {{US-bio-stub}}