The corruption conviction for former New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver has been overturned.
A federal appeals court tossed the conviction after pointing to a different case last year that changed the definition of the type of official misconduct that can be the base of a corruption prosecution. That means, according to the appeals court, the jury was not properly instructed at Silver's trial.
Silver was convicted in 2015 of accepting about four-million dollars in bribes for the use of his political power.