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S2 | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2016 | WHITE-COLLAR CRIME
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On Nov.
30, 2015, a
unanimous jury
found former

New York As-
sembly speaker
Sheldon Silver,
left, guilty on
seven corruption
charges. Former
New York Senate
majority leader
Dean Skelos
was convicted
on corruption
charges on Dec.
11, 2015.

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Jury Charge RI
Issues Loom

Silver, Skelos
In Appeals

Public Oficial X used the power and inlu-
Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate prior to sentencing is whether the district
BY ROBERT W. RAY
Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos comes this judges in both cases got it right in instructing ence of his oficial position to obtain ben-
I month’s consideration of post-trial motions the jury on what is required in order to prove eits from Corporation Y, an entity with
n the afterglow of the near universal public in both cases challenging the honest services that a public oficial corruptly received an substantial legislative interests before
acclaim for the guilty verdicts in the pub- fraud, bribery and extortion convictions and, illegal gift or other thing of value in exchange the State, by fostering the expectation
lic corruption cases brought by the U.S.
speciically, the jury instructions on the quid for an oficial act or action.
that Public Oficial X would take oficial
Attorney’s Ofice for the Southern District of pro quo element of these offenses. This judi- In these and other similar cases brought action favorable to and would refrain
New York against former New York Assembly
cial review process obviously will continue by the U.S. Attorney’s Office led by Preet from taking oficial action detrimental
on for months following sentencing with the Bharara and by other federal prosecutors to Corporation Y, in return for those

expected appeals to the Second Circuit and around the rest of the country, the relevant beneits. Speciically, Public Oficial X
ROBERT W. RAY is a partner at Fox Rothschild in New then possibly to the U.S. Supreme Court. But charging language in the indictment is some used his oficial position intending to
York.
for now, the central question to be addressed
variation of the following:
take numerous actions beneicial to Cor-

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