Disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was all about pay to
play — and sexually abused kids were the ones to pay the price.
Silver stopped pushing for a bill to aid victims of predators after the state Catholic Conference hired his former long-time aide as a lobbyist, says a controversial former lawyer who has taken on the Church.
John Aretakis, of upstate Troy, made the alarming charge in a scathing letter he sent to a judge who in May will sentence Silver on an unrelated federal corruption conviction.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/fmr-speaker-silver-blocked-aid-abused-kids-lawyer-article-1.2593934
Silver stopped pushing for a bill to aid victims of predators after the state Catholic Conference hired his former long-time aide as a lobbyist, says a controversial former lawyer who has taken on the Church.
John Aretakis, of upstate Troy, made the alarming charge in a scathing letter he sent to a judge who in May will sentence Silver on an unrelated federal corruption conviction.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/fmr-speaker-silver-blocked-aid-abused-kids-lawyer-article-1.2593934