For most of the participants on-hand for the start of former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s corruption trial redux, the occasion was notable as much for its replay of Silver’s first trial as what had changed.

The attorneys were different on both sides, while the judge, U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni of the Southern District of New York, still presides from the bench. The charges haven’t changed since Silver was indicted in 2015 on honest services, extortion and illegal monetary transactions, for which he was found guilty on all seven counts in November that year. Silver, too didn’t appear to have changed much, the 74-year-old looking little worse the wear in his blue windowpane suit. He even appeared to be wearing his old state assembly lapel pin.

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