Politician Tries To Blame Another Guy With The Same Name After He's Busted Blocking Low Income Housing

New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the three most powerful people in state government, had a rather novel excuse when the New York Times dug up evidence of him fighting attempts to build low income housing in Manhattan during the 1970's. He attempted to blame it all on another guy named Sheldon Silver. "I was forever confused with this guy," Silver told a Times reporter. There was indeed another Sheldon Silver, a now deceased lawyer who briefly worked for the United Jewish Council...