Sheldon Silver, one of New York’s most powerful politicians, was excited to take legal fees from a real estate developer-but the attorney with whom he’d split the money worried. ‘Is this all right, Shelly?’ he asked.
Silver answered: ‘Of course … I’m a lawyer.’ His friend took those words as assurance that ‘it was OK to refer cases to a lawyer no matter what position he held.’
But it was not OK. Silver’s agreement with his lawyer friend began a scheme to use his powerful office to rake in nearly $4 million in illicit legal fees-including millions from people dying of cancer.
In Do For Me, veteran New York City journalist Bill Sanderson uses research, interviews and original reporting to unravel New York’s biggest political scandal in decades.
Do For Me is the story of New York politics over the 21 years Sheldon Silver led New York’s state Legislature: relentlessly corrupt, and benefitting special interests over ordinary citizens.
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Chapter 1 – A favor – How Sheldon Silver’s scheme started.
Chapter 2 – Power – Silver’s efforts to keep control of New York’s state Assembly.
Chapter 3 – The firm – The law firm that paid Silver fees from people dying of asbestos-related cancer.
Chapter 4 – Pay dirt – A deadly disease, and how it became lucrative for specialized lawyers.
Chapter 5 – A connection – The cancer doctor who referred patients to Silver and his law firm.
Chapter 6 – Extra money – Sheldon Silver invested the money he reaped from illicit legal fees.
Chapter 7 – The builder – A prominent New York City real estate developer influenced Silver and other state legislators.
Chapter 8 – The sheriff – A new governor won office on an anti-corruption platform – but Silver slipped from his grasp.
Chapter 9 – Fraudsters – Sheldon Silver wasn’t the only corrupt New York state legislator.
Chapter 10 – Lies and secrets – Silver covered his tracks.
Chapter 11 – Big spenders – Real estate developers spent big to win influence in the New York state Senate.
Chapter 12 – Rent – A legislative battle over rent regulation goes against tenants.
Chapter 13 – Do for me – When a legislator sought Silver’s support for a bill, he replied: ‘You do for me, I do for you.’
Chapter 14 – Visitations – As federal investigators unraveled his scheme, Silver slipped up.
Chapter 15 – Sentences – Silver can’t find the words to express contrition for his crimes.
Chapter 16 – The wall – ‘I never thought I would know so many people who went to jail, ‘ says one of Silver’s legislative colleagues.
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Bill Sanderson is an editor and writer at the New York Daily News, and has also worked at the New York Post and the Bergen Record in New Jersey. His byline has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Market Watch.com, and Politico New York. His previous book, Bulletins From Dallas, was excerpted in Columbia Journalism Review and named a top non-fiction journalism book by the Press Gazette of London.
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