Sheldon Silver’s new attorney won’t have much time to prepare for retrial

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver appeared in court Thursday to make his new lawyer official, but that attorney will still have to be ready by the old April 16 retrial date, a judge ruled. Silver’s new lawyer, Michael Feldberg, pleaded with Mnhattan federal Judge Valerie Caproni for more time, citing the more than 1 million...

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