Silver last year had asked a judge for leniency, saying he did not want to die in prison.
But Judge Valerie Caproni responded that he was guilty of"corruption, pure and simple," said a"nonjail sentence is simply not appropriate."
Silver, known as"Shelly" throughout Albany, was a left-of-center Democrat who succeeded in navigating through the capital's power system. He became Assembly Speaker in 1994, shortly before Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo lost as Republicans swept into elected offices nationwide. Silver dedicated himself to statewide issues such as K-12 education and higher education, but also remained steadfast in his support for rent regulations in New York City and blocked Republican efforts to end them.
In 2015, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo described Silver as one of the"three men in the room" who made the decisions in Albany. Former state Senate majority leader Dean Skelos, one of the other men in the room, was convicted two weeks after Silver for pressuring businessmen to give his son a no-show job. Cuomo, the third man in the room,Silver came under investigation for his outside income at Weitz & Luxenberg.
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