New court evidence exposes Shel’s sway

New court papers filed in the corruption case against Sheldon Silver reveal blatant examples of backroom quidproquo dealings with a man who, at the time, was the state’s secondmostpowerful politician.

Included in emails put into the court record by federal prosecutors is one from the cancer doctor at the center of Silver’s case, who writes to an associate, “If he delivers, I am sure it will cost me,” about the thenassembly speaker helping him get city permits for a charity walk.

Silver also stepped in to block a Manhattan drug clinic on behalf of a realestate developer that was paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And he even wrote a letter on his official Assembly stationery to try to re duce property taxes on his own Lower East Side apartment building, the papers, filed Friday, allege.

When the organizers of a cancer charity walk couldn’t get permits for the Financial District in 2011, Dr. Robert Taub asked Silver for help — but he knew it wouldn’t come cheap.

“It will probably cost us. [Silver] is very good at getting people to owe him. But if he says he will deliver, he does,” Taub wrote to an event organizer on Aug. 28, 2011.

Silver was arrested in January, accused of having Taub refer cancer patients through him in exchange for directing state funds to Taub’s research.

The new court papers detail how Silver blocked a methadone clinic slated to open near a building owned by developer Glenwood Management.

“I thought Shelly killed this damn thing?!” a Glenwood rep wrote in a 2013 email after another clinic was proposed near the same building.

“We need to kill this again,” a Glenwood lobbyist responded.

New court papers also reveal Silver’s attempt to cut his own property taxes.

“Silver’s efforts to reduce local realestate taxes for his own building — without disclosing to the Department of Finance that he resided in the building and accordingly stood to personally benefit — reflects deliberate deception by Silver,” prosecutors wrote.

A letter from prosecutors to Silver’s attorneys revealed that panel members of an anticorruption commission claimed Gov. Cuomo and his staff tampered with their work to the point they believed they were handcuffed.

Silver is set to go on trial Nov. 2.