Lawmaker thinks Silver will disclose income
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ÂÂ Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will likely disclose next year how much money he makes from his side job practicing law, a key legislator predicted today.
“I think he’ll do it because he thinks it’s time,’’ said Assembly Energy Committee Chairman Kevin Cahill, D-Kingston,ÂÂ Ulster County.
The disclosure by Silver, who couldn’t be reached for comment today because of the Jewish holiday, would be significant, because his critics have charged for years that he has blocked efforts to limit lawsuits because of his ties to a Manhattan personal-injury firm, Weitz and Luxenberg.
Silver has said in the past there is a need for more disclosure, and that he plans to talk it over with his members.
Lawmakers now have to disclose any sources of income beyond their legislative salaries of more than $1,000. But they don’t have to tell the public how much they earned.
The issue took on more urgency last month when Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio, D-Queens, was charged with taking money to help advance special interests in the Legislature. Critics say that if he had to disclose the $500,000 he made from the consulting business through which he funneled the earnings, he would have been caught sooner.
When asked, Cahill did disclose his outside income for last year:ÂÂ nothing.
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Cahill is either stupid, or he thinks we are – maybe both.