He strikes once more!
The illiterate “Burberry Bandit” — whose well-dressed robberies made previous headlines — was nabbed but once more for making an attempt to knock off a half-dozen banks throughout Manhattan, the feds stated Friday.
Vogue-forward Cornell Neilly, 34, landed again within the clink after he was sprung from federal jail in Could 2024 — for a previous financial institution theft cost — for allegedly robbing or making an attempt to rob six banks between August and October of final yr.
Neilly made off with simply shy of $3,000 in his spree, based on the indictment filed in Manhattan federal court docket charging him with three counts of financial institution theft and three counts of tried financial institution theft.
“This alleged spree is a financial institution worker’s worst nightmare,” stated FBI Performing Assistant Director in Cost Vanessa Tibbits.
It’s alleged that Neilly robbed or tried to rob, six banks throughout New York Metropolis — together with in Chelsea, the West Village, and simply north of Madison Sq. Park, handing over notes demanding particular quantities of U.S foreign money — taking hundreds of {dollars} from three banks whose tellers complied together with his calls for.
Dubbed the “Burberry Bandit,” Neilly turned notorious in 2012 after he was captured whereas wearing costly plaid threads throughout a financial institution heist.
Kin beforehand instructed The Submit that his appreciation of the finer issues in life could have launched his lifetime of crime — and should have returned to allegedly robbing banks as a result of he’s bipolar and is off his meds — although there aren’t any information that he ever sought or obtained assist from metropolis psychological well being professionals.
He had admitted to cops that his designer clothes buying dependancy fueled his lifetime of crime.
In some notes recovered by police in his previous crimes, Neilly misspelled the phrase “theft” when passing threats to financial institution tellers.
“THIS IS A ROBBY,” a few of his notes learn.
In July 2022, Neilly was locked up for 26 months in federal jail, after pleading responsible to a single financial institution theft cost in 2021, The Submit beforehand reported.
Previous to his 2022 sentencing, Neilly forewarned the court docket that “jail doesn’t rehabilitate you. You solely get much less related to good folks while you’re in jail and extra related with unhealthy ones. Really, I realized about rob a financial institution from somebody in jail.”
He was launched underneath supervised situations in Could 2024 after finishing a two-year stint behind bars.
This previous September, after being again on the streets for just a little over a yr — he struck once more, persevering with on his decade-long sample of bank-related-banditry and was busted in 5 extra financial institution heists from Greenwich Village to Central Park South, between August and September.
Regardless of already being on supervised launch from his prior cost — and having a rap sheet that included 34 prior theft costs — lefty Decide Jeffery Gershuny, appointed by former Mayor Invoice De Blasio 2019, disregarded the prosecutors request for $50,000 money bail or $150,000 bond, and let the serial thief run free on supervised launch.
The 49-year-old choose was demoted to solely listening to misdemeanor circumstances, after The Submit revealed in August that the lefty had whipped out his personal gun on the bench throughout a listening to in a weapons case in Brooklyn legal court docket. His pay was slashed and was moved to nighttime court docket in Manhattan Legal Courtroom, regulation enforcement sources stated.
