Sheldon Silver, former NY Assembly speaker, ordered back to prison, sources say May 6, 2021 5:25 pm Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver arrives at the federal courthouse in New York, Nov. 24, 2015. (Seth Wenig/AP Images)
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(JTA) Sheldon Silver, the former speaker of the New York State Assembly, is reportedly headed back to prison, just days after being sent home on what officials had described as a COVID-related furlough.
The Associated Press, citing a source familiar with the situation, reported that the reversal of fortune came after the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, which prosecuted Silver’s case, notified the Bureau of Prisons that it had opposed his release.
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Sheldon Silver Reportedly Ordered Back To Prison After Two Day Release
arrow Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, center, leaves U.S. District Court after he was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison on July 20, 2020. John Minchillo/AP/Shutterstock
Sheldon Silver is heading back to federal prison, just two days after he was released on an unexplained furlough, according to multiple reports.
The disgraced former State Assembly Speaker was cut loose from Otisville Prison on Tuesday while awaiting a request to serve out the remainder of his sentence in home confinement. That request has now been denied, a source familiar with the matter told the Associated Press on Thursday.