Juicy History Behind Law Firm Involved In The Sheldon Silver Case

The law firm mentioned more than twenty times in the criminal complaint against former speaker of the New York Assembly Sheldon Silver, Weitz & Luxenberg, was not charged with any wrongdoing. But the firm’s co-founder Perry Weitz got his start at Morris Eisen, P.C., “an outfit so extravagantly corrupt, so hilariously dishonest, and so creatively malign as almost to defy belief,” writes CNN’s chief legal correspondent and New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey Toobin. in the magazine. In 1992 seven attorneys, investigators and office personnel for Morris Eisen were convicted of fraud, paying for false testimonies, pressuring witnesses not to testify, and falsifying evidence.