How Fake Shelly is Handling the Vito Lopez Sexual Harassment Scandal
@ShellySilver is the handle for a still-anonymous person who satirizes the real New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. His/Her identity is the source of much speculation. He/She is often very funny/topical.
Assemblyman Vito Lopez Removed From Housing Committee Chairmanship Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations [UPDATED]Powerful Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez has been censured by the Assembly Ethics Committee and forced to resign his post as Housing Comm...- When news broke late last week that Speaker Silver was going to strip powerful Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez of his leadership position following allegations he sexually harassed two of his staffers, Fake Shelly was quiet for two whole days, before he sent out his first missive.
When Vito goes down it isn't going to be a controlled implosion. nytimes.com/2012/08/26/nyr…- When the New York Times wrote an article saying Silver had approved a secret settlement before the most recent allegations came out, Fake Shelly started to defend himself.
- Gevalt... Not liking where this is going. RT @commoncauseny: Appalling use of taxpayer $ to protect a sexual predator: nyti.ms/OfRczu.
- Look, $103,000 is substantially less than what it would cost to house Assemblyman Lopez in a minimum security facility. nytimes.com/2012/08/28/nyr…
- Fake Shelly took pains to remind us that Lopez is also being scrutinized as part of two federal investigations into the finances of the nonprofit Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, a housing organization he founded.
- Vito may be a serial groper but at least he doesn't treat his non-profit org like a personal piggy bank... Oh, wait. nytimes.com/2012/08/26/nyr…
- . @VitoLopez_: There were multiple incidents of unwelcome physical conduct toward one complainant, wherein you put your hand on her leg...
- . @VitoLopez_: ...Then you put your hand between her upper thighs, putting your hand as far up between her legs as you could go.
- There's an old saying that trouble always comes in threes. (also, trends) Weeks earlier, the New York Post broke a story about Assemblywoman Naomi Rivera's secret relationship with a former staffer, and on Saturday after the Lopez censure was announced, State Sen. Shirley Huntley held a press conference at her own home to announce she was going to be arrested in connection with a sham nonprofit/member items scandal. Everyone was focused on the Vito story.
- Gevalt. The Senate is a mess. The press should focus on this... RT @nydailynews Queens Sen. Shirley Huntley indicted nydn.us/RoM1Ab
- Unpleasant: "Vito Lopez" and "probe" in the same headline. RT @azipaybarah: nydn.us/NZah8m
- How about that Huntley mess in the Senate?! RT @azipaybarah @DannyHakim: $103,080 isn't the full Vito Lopez settlement: nyti.ms/NZbDzY
. @SpoxWhyland: We need to get 'em off the Vito story. Tell @BKColin that Huntley was caught with this toothbrush shiv: http://pic.twitter.com/KVLTUkM7- As details of the first settlement leaked out to the papers, Silver's handling of the scandal was subject to increased scrutiny.
- Gevalt. I guess that makes me Sheldon "Enabler." RT @Gothamist: Vito "Gropez" resigns as Brooklyn Democratic Chair: j.mp/QP8ods
- Vito uses Ridgewood-Bushwick as his personal piggy bank for decades and no one cares. Then he touches a girl's leg... nytimes.com/2012/08/29/nyr…
- While the secret pay-off of Vito's victims was legal and ethical, the Talmud has very little to say about transparency. nytimes.com/2012/08/29/nyr…
- Documents related to the earlier settlement showed staff from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office had looked at and exchanged communications about the settlement before it was signed.
