{"id":11163,"date":"2015-01-22T11:30:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11163"},"modified":"2015-01-22T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:30:39","slug":"arrested-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11163","title":{"rendered":"Arrested development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best political news I&#8217;ve seen in years, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/23\/nyregion\/speaker-of-new-york-assembly-sheldon-silver-is-arrested-in-corruption-case.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sheldon Silver, Speaker of New York Assembly, Is Accused of Taking Millions in Graft.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/assembly.state.ny.us\/mem\/Sheldon-Silver\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Silver<\/a> surrendered to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Bureau of Investigation<\/a> agents early Thursday morning in Lower Manhattan, law enforcement officials said.\u00a0 Mr. Silver, before entering 26 Federal Plaza, said, \u201cI hope I\u2019ll be vindicated.\u201d &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I hope to win this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nylottery.ny.gov\/wps\/portal\/Home\/Lottery\/Home\/Jackpot+Games\/POWERBALL\" target=\"_blank\">Powerball<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That statement does not express much confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/253412499\/US-v-Sheldon-Silver-Complaint\" target=\"_blank\">a link to the complaint<\/a> against him and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/albanyproject\/status\/558291904316846080\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is a picture of Shelly handcuffed in the back of a cop car.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Here it is! Photo of Sheldon Silver in handcuffs in the back of a cop car. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/6XXnuW00oh\">http:\/\/t.co\/6XXnuW00oh<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/U7ZHNvfk30\">pic.twitter.com\/U7ZHNvfk30<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; the albany project (@albanyproject) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/albanyproject\/status\/558291904316846080\">January 22, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The question that immediately comes to mind is, how many people will Shelly roll over on to save his own ass? &#8230;..<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D11163&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11163\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11163\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11163\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best political news I&#8217;ve seen in years, &#8220;Sheldon Silver, Speaker of New York Assembly, Is Accused of Taking Millions in Graft.&#8221; &#8220;&#8230; Mr. Silver surrendered to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents early Thursday morning in Lower Manhattan, law enforcement officials said.\u00a0 Mr. Silver, before entering 26 Federal Plaza, said, \u201cI hope I\u2019ll be vindicated.\u201d &#8230;&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D11163&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11163\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11163\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11163\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurisprudence","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11163"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11170,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163\/revisions\/11170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}