Shelly doc jabs him over cases

EX-ASSEMBLY Speaker Sheldon Silver’s second trial opened Monday with damning testimony by a doctor who paved the way for Silver to earn $3 million in allegedly illicit fees from a Manhattan law firm.

“Shelly needs cases,” were the words Dr. Robert Taub says he heard in 2003 from Daniel Chill, a lawyer and mutual friend of Taub and Silver.

Taub — the star witness at Silver’s trial in Manhattan Federal Court — allegedly gave Silver the names of patients suffering from mesothelioma. Silver then is alleged to have given the names to a law firm, which then gave the Manhattan Dem onethird of the millions in fees it earned. Silver then is accused of steering $500,000 in state taxpayer money to Taub’s lab.