State investigators are finally going after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
The Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which had been under fire for investigating only Assemblyman Vito Lopez in the wake of the Brooklyn boss’s harassment scandal, approved an expanded investigation Monday into Silver’s handling of the fallout, sources told the Daily News.
Commission Chairwoman Janet DiFiore announced JCOPE’s unanimous decision to launch “substantial basis investigation” following a closed-door meeting of the its board. She refused to provide further details, but a source said the panel would conduct a “sweeping investigation that will go where it leads.”
Silver confirmed the wider probe — and said he welcomes it.
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Very sad, but not surprising. It’s not anti-semitism, it’s politics. He has too much power in Albany, he sees himself as a Kingmaker & he has outlived his usefulness to the Jewish community, politically speaking. Time for him to go. He should retire with grace…but he won’t.
Even to be accused of this is shameful.
And to use taxpayer’s money for this is even more disgusting