New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s office has dropped a request for a correction from the New York Times in connection to a decades-old project.
The paper says Silver’s office has backed down from a claim that another man named Sheldon Silver was involved in it — not the assemblyman.
The Times says it produced documents that showed Silver pushed city officials to build a mall in his Manhattan district instead of low-income housing.
On Thursday, Silver told a state Democratic Party convention breakfast he “was forever confused” with lawyer Sheldon E. Silver, who died in 2001.
The paper says Silver continues to say he was never a lawyer to the United Jewish Council, which tried to block the low-income project.
Silver’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment.
(AP)
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The late Sheldon E. Silver was a familiar figure in Crown Heights. He was a small-town lawyer not a wheeler-dealer & I would guess there’s some funny stuff going on if the Speaker is trying to claim the old ADDI defense – Another Dude Did It. Ain’t gonna fly this time.