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Sheldon Silver probe led to ‘incriminating’ evidence against Skelos

Federal prosecutors​ ​​reaped a​ ​​windfall ​when they subpoenaed a real-estate development firm last year​ ​as part of their investigation into then-Assembly ​S​peaker Sheldon Silver​ ​and it turned up incriminating material about former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos,​ ​new court papers state.

The prosecutors sent a grand jury subpoena to Glenwood Management in May 2014 as part of their probe into outside income earned by Silver, according to the Manhattan federal court papers.

“As part of the document requests, the Silver [Glenwood] subpoena asked for all documents concerning political contributions to state officials or parties​​, and concerning the New York State Legislature,” state the newly un-redacted court papers, which don’t mention Glenwood by name.

“In addition to the materials about Dean Skelos produced by Developer-1, starting in or about May 2014, the Government began issuing grand jury subpoenas related to Dean Skelos.”

The papers don’t make clear what the materials are.

The prosecutors had begun probing Skelos in April 2014 but their investigation had focused on his work for a Long Island law firm until his name popped up in the subpoenaed material from Glenwood, the papers say.

Within a few months, Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara’s investigators broadened the probe to include Skelos’ son Adam, who was indicted alongside his dad in May.

Dean Skelos (left) and Sheldon SilverGregory P. Mango (left), R. Umar Abbasi

Some of the charges Skelos and his son face stem from their relationship with Glenwood, including the company arranging for Adam Skelos to get a $20,000 check from a title insurance company for work he never did, prosecutors have said.

The new information in the court papers also reveals details about the investigations into Skelos and his son, including that investigators sent subpoenas to all New York state senators representing Long Island in April.

The trial of Dean and Adam Skelos is set to begin Nov. 16.