Voter-fraud prosecution unlikely for Silver
Photo credit: Chris Ware | Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver speaks to members of the press in Charlotte, N.C., before the Democratic National Convention. (Sept. 3, 2012)
Don't bet the mortgage money that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance will push the envelope and prosecute Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver -- or anyone else -- based on the fact that Silver's three grown children still vote from his Lower East Side address while maintaining homes elsewhere.
Vance, a Democrat, has been widely expected to look at the situation after Daniel Isaacs,...
