Editorial: Mr. Silver, back to prison
Times Union Editorial Board
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Hey, did you hear the one about the guy who dragged out his legal case for years, and when he got to prison said, “Have pity on me, warden, I’m an old man”?
Sheldon Silver, 77, may have been laughing, but the rest of us weren’t when the ex-Assembly speaker was released from prison last week.
He went home on furlough while officials weighed his request to serve the rest of his 6 1/2-year sentence on federal corruption charges in home confinement. He’d been in prison for about eight months.