[NYPOST] Disgraced former Albany power broker Sheldon Silver surrendered to federal prison on Wednesday — bringing an end to a stunning fall from power by the one-time speaker of the New York State Assembly.Silver turned himself in Wednesday morning at Otisville Correctional Facility, a medium-security federal prison about 80 miles northeast of New York City, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons said.For the past five years, Silver — who for decades wielded immense power in Albany as "one of the three men in the room" — dodged serving his time while he mounted appeals of his two corruption convictions.
But his prospects of freedom ended last month, when Manhattan federal court judge Valerie Caproni sentenced him to 6 1/2 years in prison.
Caproni, calling Silver’s conduct in office "corruption pure and simple," dismissed final attempts by his legal team to delay his prison term because of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
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