Supreme Court rejects former NY lawmaker Sheldon Silver's appeal
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's bid to avoid a retrial on corruption charges after his 2015 conviction was thrown out by a lower court.
Silver, a Democrat, had appealed a 2017 ruling by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan that sufficient evidence existed to prove various corruption charges against him even though it had thrown out his convictions.
