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Government Corruption

NY Post: Parole board is a cesspit of corruption

2025-04-13

[NYPOST] New York's Parole Board is a patronage mill stuffed with leftist ideologues and political has-beens who each rake in an astounding $190,000 yearly — including at least one member who married a cold-blooded killer.

A Post examination of the 16 members — whose salaries have skyrocketed 87% since 2019, even as they freed 43 cop killers in the past eight years — is almost as disturbing as their pro-criminal decisions.

Heading the list is Tana Agostini.

She used her clout as a staffer of the state Assembly committee overseeing prisons in 2013 to engineer the parole of Thomas O'Sullivan — whose three-decade prison stint for the hired 1982 murder of a Queens drug pusher included an escape and biting off part of an inmate's nose.

Agostini fell in love with and married O'Sullivan while he was in prison and successfully pressed the Parole Board to free her husband.

In 2017, then-Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo

tapped Agostini to serve on the board.

She’s among 11 Democratic cronies the NYC mayoral frontrunner appointed or re-appointed to the panel.

All are still serving as holdovers — some under terms that expired more than five years ago.

The current board is also filled with former lefty state legislators, Legal Aid Society lawyers, public defenders and other longtime prisoner-rights advocates.

A handful of ex-parole and probation officers and former prosecutors round out the group.

Cuomo “stacked the parole board with his leftist friends who have no appreciation for the sacrifice our police make, and it is just horrific and inexcusable that his board has released 43 convicted cop killers,” former Gov. George Pataki told The Post.

The Republican called Cuomo’s appointees another example of his “abject failure as governor to understand the impact of violent crime,” which also includes Cuomo signing controversial bail reform into law in 2019 widely blamed for New York’s rising recidivism rates.

“It’s hard for me to believe that anyone who cares about public safety or protecting the police who risk their lives for our safety could have allowed this to happen — but Andrew Cuomo certainly did,” Pataki said.

Posted by:Fred

#1 This is another iteration of "Water is wet". Its New York. Of course its corrupt. The people who live there keep voting for this.

32 steps from now, Trump or Vance should decree that no Federal funding will be provided to states that don't meet certain "truth in funding" standards.

Posted by: Crusader 2025-04-13 00:08

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