Sheldon Silver, Speaker of the New York State Assembly, attends the opening ceremony of the building, the first tower to open at the original site of the World Trade Center in New York, NY. on November 13, 2013. The office building has 72 floors, is 978 feet tall and offers 2,500,000 square feet of space.(Photo by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has died while serving a prison sentence in a corruption case.
The federal Bureau of Prisons said Silver died Monday. It said the official cause of death would be determined by the medical examiner. The Democrat was one of the most powerful figures in New York state government for two decades before his conviction on corruption charges.
He was sentenced to more than six years in prison for using his clout in state government to benefit real estate developers. The conviction ended a four-decade career in the Assembly.
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