An notorious serial financial institution robber with a whopping 34 prior arrests is again on the streets after getting busted for a brand new string of heists, due to a soft-on-crime decide first placed on the bench by then-Mayor Bill de Blasio.
It’s a reminder of the pernicious harms a Mayor Zohran Mamdani would inflict.
Dubbed the “Burberry Bandit” for his distinctive garb, Cornell Neilly was out on parole for a 2021 financial institution theft cost when he was busted once more on Monday for holding up 5 extra banks in August and September.
He’s a poster youngster for a decided repeat offender who belongs behind bars, however Manhattan Judge Jeffrey Gershuny ignored all that, and flipped off prosecutors’ pleas that he be held on bail or bond, to let Neilly stroll on supervised launch.
It’s a thriller why Gershuny was in a position to make that decision; he’s supposed to be barred from overseeing felony prison instances after he whipped out his private firearm in the course of a listening to final month.
De Blasio put this numbskull on the bench in 2019, and apparently the courtroom system can’t defend the general public from him even after that lunacy.
Expect so much extra such stinkers to hitch him on the bench if Mamdani wins in November — judges who’ll lengthy outlast his mayoralty as Gershuny has Blas’.
Picking prison courtroom judges is considered one of any mayor’s most direct influences over the justice system.
There’s no pesky affirmation course of; alternatives get screened and really helpful by the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary — which is. . . stuffed by the mayor.
Mamdani’s committee would probably see Gershuny (packing warmth within the courtroom apart) because the very best: a soft-on-crime bleeding coronary heart who by no means runs out of second probabilities for recidivists, regardless of what number of New York residents and companies pay the worth.
That means a minimum of 4 years of a man who doesn’t consider in incarceration tapping the judges who’ll apply that philosophy.
You can take that to the financial institution — besides it’s more likely to be held up by the forever-free “Burberry Bandit.”
