I have to say that this has been bothering me since it happened.. Why should WE pay for his crimes? Let Silver pay if Boxley doesn’t have the money… Why should the taxpayers of this state pay for something that Silver allowed to go on in his Albany office?????
Lawyer to Silver: Pay up
A retired lawyer is suing Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and his former chief counsel, J. Michael Boxley, but he doesn’t want the money, his lawyer says.
Instead, Joe Santora wants Silver and Boxley to reimburse New York state the $500,000 it paid to settle with an Assembly staffer who accused Boxley of sexual abuse, plus the costs of state lawyers in the case.
“He is not seeking to be paid anything from this,” said Santora’s lawyer, Robert McKay of Garden City.
The case was filed May 30 in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, where Santora lives. The state has moved for dismissal.
In January 2006, the Assembly agreed to pay more than $500,000 to a staffer who said Boxley had sex with her without her consent in 2003. Boxley also pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and was fined $1,000, sentenced to six years’ probation, fired and had his law license suspended until 2006. Excerpt–more here….
