Law360, New York (September 07, 2012, 6:35 PM ET) -- A judge on Friday cleared Staten Island prosecutor Dan Donovan to probe allegations that $103,000 in public money was used to secretly settle sexual harassment claims by two women against Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez, a move that puts Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's approval of the settlement in prosecutors' sights.
New York City Administrative Judge Fern A. Fisher's order capped a week in which pressure mounted on Lopez, who denies allegations that he sexually harassed women, to resign.
Silver, the second most powerful Democrat in Empire State...
Staten Island DA Gets OK To Probe Albany Sex Scandal
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