Common Cause/NY to Shelly Silver: Shut It Down

NEW YORK, NY (05/29/2018) (readMedia)-- In response to news that convicted Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver has over $400K in a PAC, Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause/NY issued the following statement:

"Shelly Silver was twice convicted of abusing his position in public office to take bribes and kick-backs, he should not be able to sit on half a million dollars cash to dole out at his sole discretion. Barring a change in state law, we would urge the U.S. Attorney to seize all of Mr. Silver's assets, including campaign assets such as his PAC. It's a perversion of law that disgraced former public officials retain control over campaign funds."