D-oh! 
Posted on 12/08/2025 1:05:21 PM PST by Libloather
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has picked a controversial rapper who did seven years in state prison for armed robbery to advise him on the criminal justice system.
Mysonne Linen, 49, a Bronx convict-turned-activist who was found guilty of two felony heists in the late 1990s, was appointed by the democratic socialist to sit on a “criminal legal system” committee for his transition team as he prepares for the move to City Hall next month.
“This is a testament to our decades of work advocating on behalf of black and brown communities and our expertise in gun violence prevention, legislative advocacy and criminal justice reform,” Linen wrote on Instagram last month. “We are building something different.”
Linen was a promising young rapper when he was convicted in 1999 for being part of a crew that robbed two cab drivers in the Bronx, the New York Daily News reported at the time.
The conviction came just as Linen’s debut album was due for release by Def Jam Recordings.
Bronx prosecutors said his crew pulled off the June 8, 1997, robbery of taxi driver Joseph Exiri, and the March 31, 1998, gunpoint theft from cabbie Francisco Monsanto, according to the News.
Linen, who faced up to 25 years behind bars, continued to deny he was involved and rebranded himself as a community activist following his release from state prison.
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They knew he was a snake when they let him in.
Who is he going to hire as an advisor on the “jewish question”?
NYer’s voted for this (or didn’t bother) - eat every rotten mouthful, and drink every bitter drop.
Perhaps next time, if there is one, they’ll consider their situation more seriously.
D-oh!
Agree. This was a mostly fair election from the closeness of good polling and the results.
The New York voters deserve, fully, what they are going to get.
The other way is we will have to bail them out and then see OUR cities and states turn into Communist enclaves on the basis of “see? Mamdani’s way worked out well.”
The coming NYC corruption will make the Minnesota corruption look small.
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