EXCLUSIVE: Under wraps! Shamed Sheldon Silver, 77, is seen covered in white sheets being wheeled out of his Manhattan apartment on a stretcher as he is ordered back to prison after a two-day furlough
Once the most powerful politician in Albany, Sheldon Silver was seen being wheeled out of his Manhattan apartment on a stretcher headed back to prison after a brief home release
The shamed 77-year-old had white sheets wrapped around his body and head, and a blue face mask pulled up over his eyes
Silver was released from prison Tuesday on furlough while awaiting the decision on whether he could serve his remaining time in home confinement
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Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is getting released to home confinement after serving less than a year of the six-and-a-half year sentence for corruption he began last August.
The Yeshiva World first reported this morning that Silver would be released under the CARES Act, which allows federal inmates to be released to home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic. “At this time the family is asking for privacy to deal with Mr. Silver s medical issues which he has some serious ones that are ongoing,” Rabbi Akiva Homnick of the criminal justice advocacy group Pidyon Shvuyai Yisroel told City & State, citing a conversation with an unnamed family member of the former speaker. “He s expected home momentarily.”