Posted on 12/28/2019 8:46:35 AM PST by Impala64ssa
So sorry we had to lock you up — please accept these parting gifts as an expression of our hope, it won’t happen again! Mayor Bill de Blasio’s latest soft-on-crime initiative has workers stationed on Rikers Island presenting newly released jailbirds with free transit passes and two $25 debit cards each, The Post has learned.
Plans even call for the addition of prepaid, “burner”-style cellphones and drawstring bags for the ex-inmates to carry their swag, a source familiar with the program said. The “crime pays” giveaways build on another de Blasio policy — revealed by The Post last month — that showers freebies including Mets tickets on prisoners being released under the state’s new bail-reform law. Those goodies are intended to serve as incentives so the defendants return to court as ordered, but the new program covers everyone who’s released from Department of Correction custody, the source said. That includes cons who have finished their jail terms or been sentenced to time served. Law enforcement officials were outraged over the swag bags.
“It’s a sad state of affairs when the city bends over backward to reward criminals instead of protecting the victims of their crimes,” one source lamented. “What’s next? Free limo service back home?” The taxpayer-funded program, which is set to run for six months and expand to city courthouses next week, relies on workers from several nonprofits that cater to ex-cons and are being paid by the city. The groups include the Fortune Society, the Osborne Association and Fedcap Rehabilitation Services, the source said. The city is spending $500,000 on items that will also include winter coats.
It will also distribute footwear donated by the Steven Madden shoe company, according to the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, which is overseeing the program.
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I think that newly released inmates do need help. I am not opposed to this as long as it is coupled with just and appropriate jail time for the crime committed.
I grew up in NYC, you could not pay me enough to ever live there again. NYC is a city absolutely run by the insane. Rewarding criminals with money now, this on top of getting rid of bail.
Did you read the story the other day in the NY Post of the guy who tried to burn down Yeshiva university? Arrested and released without bail. He then went to Staten Island where he broke into a house threatening to stab someone. Arrested and again released without bail.
Anyone who lives in that sh*thole? I’d advise you to get the hell out of there pronto, especially if you have kids. It’s one type of hell to have a child murdered, but a whole other kind of hell to see the killer rewarded as well but that’s exactly what is happening. Look at the killer of 18 year old Barnard Student Tessa Majors, all the muggers involved including the killer are out on the street with no bail.
Warren Wilhelm Jr.
Footwear donated by the Steven Madden shoe company, will also be distributed according to the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, which is overseeing the program.
WIKI Madden started the shoe company with $1,100 in 1990 by selling shoes out of the trunk of his car.
Criminal conviction
Madden’s financial affairs were closely entangled with Long Island “pump and dump” brokerage house Stratton Oakmont, cofounded by Madden’s childhood friend Danny Porush, who first lent him money to expand his fledgling company, and then underwrote its initial public offering.
In June 2000, a class action lawsuit was filed against Madden for issuing materially false and misleading statements during the Class Period.[7][dead link] A settlement of $9 million was reached in 2004.[8] In 2001, the SEC filed charges against Madden in Federal Court in New York state, alleging SEC violations.[9] Because the violations were not criminal in nature, the SEC was seeking to recover $1,637,000 in a combination of illegally avoided losses, interest, and a civil penalty.
In 2002, Madden was convicted of stock manipulation, money, and securities fraud. He was sentenced to 41 months in prison, and was made to resign as CEO from Steven Madden, Ltd. and from the board of directors.[10] Shortly after resigning as CEO, Madden set himself up as a creative consultant with Steven Madden, Ltd., a position for which he drew $700,000 even when he was in prison.[10]
Madden served time in the Federal Prison Camp, Eglin, at Eglin Air Force Base, and later the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, near Ocala, Florida. Madden was released from prison in April 2005.[11] He then attended a New York City halfway house.[12] Madden’s attorney, Joel Winograd, said that Madden would stay at the house for 60 days.[13] After his release from a halfway house, he was restricted to home confinement for a period.[14]
Post-release
Since Madden was released from prison in 2005, the company quickly rebounded, increasing revenue by nearly $100 million in 2006 to $475.1 million.[15] That same year, Steven Madden, Ltd. was named ‘Company of the Year’ for the second time at the Footwear News Achievement Awards.[16]
With Madden currently serving as the founder and design chief, the company continues to show growth year-over-year reporting $1.65 billion in revenue for FY2018.[17]
Madden contributed to The Doe Fund, a charity devoted to working on the causes of homelessness, addiction, and criminal recidivism.[18]
Are WE, the taxpayers, still providing Obamaphones???
A freed inmate needs the means to get to a home of a relative or friend and to get a job.
No different that the $10 bucks and a-bus-ticket-out-of-town-and-don’t-come-back-here-and-do-nothin’-like-this-again that our Circuit Judge did on a regular basis 1940s-1970s.
“I think that newly released inmates do need help. I am not opposed to this as long as it is coupled with just and appropriate jail time for the crime committed.”
It is definitely a big problem. How do you reintegrate ex-cons into society?
I didn’t commit a crime. Do I get freebies too? I see. You only reward street savages who are likely to vote democrat.
The dead, the convicted, the illegals, the criminals, all voters.
De Blowsthehole is in a serious competition with Gavin Nobrain to see who can enact the most ridiculous policies.
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