Sheldon Silver's Fall Signals End of a (Jewish) Era in New York Politics

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New York State’s most powerful Jewish powerbroker has fallen.
The city awoke Thursday morning to a political world turned inside out. Sheldon Silver, among the two or three most powerful men in state politics since 1994, surrendered to FBI agents in the early hours of the morning at a federal building in Foley Square, just blocks from the Lower East Side district he dominated for decades.

Read more: http://forward.com/articles/213261/sheldon-silvers-fall-signals-end-of-a-jewish-era-i/#ixzz3Pf8lnSUH

Pretty amazing development!

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