Jury hears conflicting portrayals of Ex-NY Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver accused of receiving bribes

Jury hears conflicting portrayals of Ex-NY Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver accused of receiving bribes

Lawyers offered a jury two starkly different portrayals of former NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver - one as a symbol of greed and corruption in Albany, the other as a respected politician who had a right to make millions of dollars in outside income.