By BENJAMIN WEISER and SUSANNE CRAIG NOV. 30, 2015
After a five-week trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan, the end came rather quickly and unceremoniously for Mr. Silver, 71, a Democrat who served more than two decades as Assembly speaker before he was forced to resign from the post after his arrest in January.A federal prosecutor, Howard S. Master said ["The speaker, used his office to “dispense benefits to people who were paying him in quid pro quo relationship — he used that power and that money to line his pockets.”]
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