Janele Hyer-Spencer with rumored former paramour Shelly Silver in 2010.
Ron Romano
A former Staten Island assemblywoman who the feds claimed had an affair with the late, disgraced Meeting Speaker Sheldon Silver has left authorities — and works as a mannequin.
Janele Hyer-Spencer, 57, lists herself as a “lawyer who's a sports activities fanatic,” on an expert web page with OneModelPlace.com. The web page, which additionally touts her proficiency in “excessive sports activities” and B-cup breast dimension, reveals 5 professionally shot images of the flaxen-maned Democrat.
It’s unclear how lengthy Hyer-Spencer has been within the modeling biz. Her web page continues to be lively, and a a 2015 archived model of it suggests she created it again in 2004, earlier than she took workplace in 2007.
“Appears to be like like she is having extra enjoyable than she had serving within the Meeting,” former Staten Island Assemblyman Robert Straniere joked.
Hyer-Spencer — a Yamaha motorcycle-riding ex-beauty queen — served within the state Meeting as a Democrat for a reasonably ineffective 4 years. She is usually remembered for her shut relationship with the highly effective Silver.
“She used to brag. And when she used to play basketball with the opposite Meeting members, her cell would ring and she or he would say, ‘It’s Shelly . . . I gotta take this,’” an Albany insider instructed The Put up in 2016. “She left every little thing as much as their creativeness. And she or he loved the eye.”
When the married Silver was busted in 2015 for steering state cash to pursuits that had enterprise together with his regulation agency, the feds mentioned Hyer-Spencer — who was herself married on the time — was one of many two ladies with whom the speaker was having affairs. She denied it. The opposite alleged mistress, a lobbyist named Patricia Lynch, additionally by no means copped to trysts.
After Hyer-Spencer misplaced reelection in 2010, Silver allegedly used his affect to get her a plum $84,000-a-year gig as a congressional lobbyist for the Schooling Division. In 2013 she moved on to a $99,600 job as a help Justice of the Peace in Staten Island Household Court docket — a place she held till March 2020. Her final wage was $140,622 per 12 months.
“She left proper earlier than COVID,” a court docket spokesperson confirmed. She is at the moment residing in Florida, the place she works as an immigration lawyer, based on her LinkedIn.
Silver died in jail on Monday. Hyer-Spencer didn't return a request for remark.
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