‘Corruption’ doc set to deliver death blow to Sheldon Silver

The New York Post reports:

The doctor at the center of the corruption charges against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver “disapproved” of him and his law firm and referred cancer patients there only as long as Silver was funneling him state money for research, new court papers claim.

Dr. Robert Taub allegedly was so unhappy with the deal to send asbestos-related cancer patients to Silver that once the speaker stopped their quid pro quo, the physician began referring his patients to more ethical lawyers, the paper says.

Taub, who got nearly of $500,000 in state money for his research funneled to him from Silver, didn’t like that the firm failed to give any of the millions it made off cancer cases to mesothelioma research.

“The Government expects that Dr. Taub will testify that for many years he disapproved of [Silver’s] law firm Weitz & Luxenberg because it made millions of dollars from representing mesothelioma victims (enough to buy ‘private jets’), and yet it did not donate money to support mesothelioma research,” federal prosecutors wrote in the new court papers, which were filed Monday.

The great moments of government in the medicine business! We assure you, ObamaCare will eventually shatter the boldest of imaginations if it isn't dismantled in the field of corruption. Sheldon Silver shows how corrupt big government can be.