Disgraced former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has died in federal prison in , where he was serving a sentence on a fraud conviction. He was 77. Silver, a from Manhattan, was once one of the three most powerful state officials in New York. He led the state Assembly for more than two decades before his abrupt ouster in 2015 after corruption allegations emerged against him.The disgraced politician, who had been battling cancer and kidney disease, passed away in a federal prison in Middlesex, Massachusetts.
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