Recently the Speaker of the New York Assembly (Sheldon Silver) was indicted and convicted in a $4 million dollar federal corruption charge (http://nylawyer.nylj.com/adgifs/decisions15/012315maas.pdf).Speaker Silver served in the post of Speaker of the NY Assembly for 20 years.

For those not familiar with NY politics, the Speaker of the New York Assembly is one of the most powerful persons in NYS government; somemaysay his power is on par with that of the Governor of New York (nothing comes to a vote in the NYS Assembly, without the Speaker's prior approval, including the state budget).

Do research on the internet on Speaker Silver, and give me your opinion as to why you think someone as powerful as Speaker Silver, would commit fraud. Tie your answer into the either the Fraud Triangle, Fraud Diamond or Fraud Pentagon, if you can