As former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver awaits appeal of his federal corruption conviction, a state appeals court in Manhattan has censured Silver’s former counsel for failing to disclose to clients that he was splitting legal fees with Silver.

Silver was convicted for running two schemes that included reaping $700,000 in payments to Jay Goldberg’s real estate tax certiorari firm, Goldberg & Iryami, for steering developers to the firm.

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