Former New York Assembly speaker sentenced to 6½ years in prison
By Dave Lemery The Center Square — For 21 years, Sheldon Silver was one of the three most powerful men in New York state, part of a triumvirate that steered the ship of state and a political figure who sought to leave his stamp on the state Assembly. But soon he will be, instead, a federal inmate after he was sentenced Monday to 6½ years in prison. The Manhattan Democrat served in the Assembly for