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Open Forum: Political Corruption

WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Published December 1, 2015 at 2:00 PM EST
Sheldon Silver
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The conviction yesterday of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has provoked fresh calls to overhaul a state government with a long history of corruption. Times Union State Editor and Capitol Bureau Chief and co-host of New York Now Casey Seiler joins us in the studio to discuss political corruption in state politics and beyond.
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