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Silver Lining
Albany, N.Y.
Katha Pollitt's contention that New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver made rape charges against a senior staff member "go away" is untrue ["Subject to Debate," May 4]. When an Assembly staffer came to the Assembly in 2001 with allegations that she had been the victim of a sexual assault by a senior staff member, we urged her to file a criminal complaint with the Albany Police Department or the Albany County district attorney. She declined to bring her complaint to law enforcement, and therefore charges were never filed.
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