#Letters to the Editor — May 6, 2021

The Issue: Sheldon Silver’s furlough from prison just eight months into his 78-month sentence.

The Post’s editorial about former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s release just proves the double standard that exists in New York state (“Get Shelly Back to Prison,” May 5).

This criminal was convicted by his peers for taking advantage of his political position, thereby showing the residents of the state how corrupt the system is.

He should be brought back to prison to serve the remainder of his sentence. Perhaps that would send a message to all of the other corrupt government officials that the gig is up.

Frank Caniglia

Sag Harbor

Thanks for another excellent editorial.

While many might be upset that the corrupt Silver has been furloughed from federal prison after serving only eight months of a 78-month sentence, it gives us all a unique opportunity to observe a rare scientific phenomenon — an isolated parasite being released to protect it from a virus.

Charles T. Compton

The Bronx

The explanation for Silver serving only eight months of his more-than-six-year sentence begs for idle speculation.

It’s highly unlikely that his early release is actually because of the pandemic, especially at this point.

Hypothetically: Might someone have owed him a really big favor from before and agreed to “take his call”? Were the eight months he served a “wink, wink” prearranged penance, with the remaining 70 months simply there to make the process appear fair and just?

I’m reminded of an old saying I heard many, many years ago: “If it stinks like a three-day-old dead fish, then it probably is one.”

Vincent Ruggiero

Scottsdale, Ariz.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons just proved that it’s run by corrupt Democrats.

This is an outrage. Silver was convicted and sentenced and was released after serving all of eight months. This is why no one trusts the federal government.

Dan Gardner

Staten Island

Slippery Shelly Silver is out. One of the most corrupt politicians in New York history has been released after serving a small portion of a very lenient sentence.

The official reason is the poor man’s health. You can’t help but wonder if there were something else being considered. Could he have been spreading word about his time as one of the “three men in a room”?

Gov. Cuomo is hoping that all the current scandals he is involved in will simply fade away if he just hangs in there and refuses to resign.

A group of useful idiots just had a rally on his behalf, so things are looking up, right? The last thing Cuomo wants now is more revelations about his conduct.

Robert DeCandia

New Hyde Park

Why was Silver released from prison? He is now being allowed to remain in his own residence.

This lying, cheating, self-serving, crooked, dishonest politician deserves to stay right where he has already been — behind bars.

His so-called health condition should not be an automatic ticket to being released.

There are many other inmates who have health issues, and they are tended to by the prison hospital doctors for their medical conditions.

This is a slap in the face to every law-abiding citizen in New York. Once again, a politician thinks that he is above the law, and shifty Shelly certainly is one of them.

Rescind his out-of-jail order and return him to his nice, cozy cell where he belongs, immediately. Do the crime, fully do the time.

John Amato

Fresh Meadows

By what tortured logic can this doubly convicted prisoner be released?

Despite incontrovertible evidence, he forced not one but two criminal trials, then postponed going “in” for over five years.

Arthur T. Dallas

The Bronx

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