In Shelly Silver's world, sexual harassment pays. Literally.
We saw that with Vito Lopez, when two female assistants complained about unwanted groping by the Brooklyn state assemblyman. Assembly Speaker Silver arranged $103,000 in hush money he took from you, the taxpayer. Other women later came forward to say that Lopez, too, benefited, because the payout only made him more brazen.
The speaker continues to be dogged by criticism over these payments, which he's since admitted were a bad idea "from the perspective of transparency." But where there's a will, there's a profit. And as The Post's Carl Campanile reports, Silver's law firm — Weitz & Luxenberg — is now recruiting sexual-abuse victims as clients.
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On its Web page, the firm notes that in some places victims are forced to sign "a nondisclosure agreement." It talks about a "culture of silence" and how the social stigma can let "criminals off the hook."
Sound like any culture you know?
If we were cynical, we'd accuse the speaker of a conflict of interest, by using his day job at the Assembly to help ensure a whole class of clients for his private law firm. Especially since he ended this Assembly session without enacting a promised ban on confidential settlements.
But that's Albany. No matter how it works out, it seems either you end up paying or Shelly somehow ends up profiting. Or both.
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