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–The de Blasio administration and the developers behind those proposed mega-towers in the Two Bridges area headed to appeals court last week in a bid to reverse a lower court ruling that halted the unpopular projects. [City Limits]
–Opinion: Developments shouldn’t be approved when they “impinge on crucial institutions or iconic views.” Case in point: “One Manhattan Square… among New York City’s most disappointing buildings. An 80-story box completed in 2018… It stands just 50 feet from the Manhattan Bridge, where Chinatown meets the East River. From that location, towering over everything around it, the building spoils views both to and from Lower Manhattan.” [The Architect’s Newspaper]
Clemency for more than a dozen Jews
January 29, 2021
(JTA) In the final hours of his presidency, Donald Trump awarded clemency to more than a dozen Jews who had been convicted of crimes but not Sheldon Silver, the disgraced former New York State Assembly speaker.
Silver was not on the list of 143 people granted clemency, a traditional act for outgoing presidents. That means the former Democratic power broker will continue serving a prison term on corruption charges.
The New York Times reported that Trump abandoned a plan to give clemency to Silver at the urging of New York Republicans and the New York Post.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from former New York State Assembly member Sheldon Silver, who was convicted of corruption in 2018.
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(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by Sheldon Silver, the once-powerful New York State Assembly Speaker, of his conviction on corruption charges that resulted in a 6-1/2-year prison sentence.
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Silver, 76, began serving his sentence last August despite being in poor health. He had appealed the portions of his 2018 conviction that were upheld in January 2020 by the Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Two conservative justices, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas, said they would have taken up Silver’s appeal.
Meir Feder, a lawyer for Silver, declined to comment.