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• Sheldon Silver corruption trial set to begin next month; Former NY assembly speaker drops key witness

  By The Madison County Record | Saturday, Oct 10, 2015 @ 8:17am

  NEW YORK CITY – Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, facing a corruption trial, won’t call to the witness stand a professor who blessed his cozy position in the asbestos firm of Weitz and Luxenburg. On Sept. 30, Silver abandoned his argument that Roy Simon of Hofstra School of Law exonerated him in a report to Weitz and Luxenburg. He declared he doesn’t intend to call Simon as an expert witness, relieving U.S.

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