He strikes again!
The illiterate “Burberry Bandit” — whose well-dressed robberies made past headlines — was nabbed yet again for trying to knock off a half-dozen banks across Manhattan, the feds said Friday.
Fashion-forward Cornell Neilly, 34, landed back in the clink after he was sprung from federal prison in May 2024 — for a prior bank robbery charge — for allegedly robbing or trying to rob six banks between August and October of last year.
Cornell Neilly, 34, known as the “Burberry Bandit,” was caught once again for allegedly trying to rob a half-dozen banks across Manhattan. Riyad Hasan
Neilly made off with just shy of $3,000 in his spree, according to the indictment filed in Manhattan federal court charging him with three counts of bank robbery and three counts of attempted bank robbery.
“This alleged spree is a bank employee’s worst nightmare,” said FBI Acting Assistant Director in Charge Vanessa Tibbits.
It is alleged that Neilly robbed or attempted to rob, six banks across New York City — including in Chelsea, the West Village, and just north of Madison Square Park, handing over notes demanding specific amounts of U.S currency — taking thousands of dollars from three banks whose tellers complied with his demands.
Dubbed the “Burberry Bandit,” Neilly became infamous in 2012 after he was captured while dressed in expensive plaid threads during a bank heist.
Relatives previously told The Post that his appreciation of the finer things in life may have launched his life of crime — and may have returned to allegedly robbing banks because he’s bipolar and is off his meds — though there are no records that he ever sought or received help from city mental health professionals.
He had admitted to cops that his designer clothing shopping addiction fueled his life of crime.
In some notes recovered by police in his past crimes, Neilly misspelled the word “robbery” when passing threats to bank tellers.
Neilly was released from prison in May 2024 after serving over 2 years behind bars for a previous bank robbery conviction.
“THIS IS A ROBBY,” some of his notes read.
In July 2022, Neilly was locked up for 26 months in federal prison, after pleading guilty to a single bank robbery charge in 2021, The Post previously reported.
Prior to his 2022 sentencing, Neilly forewarned the court that “jail doesn’t rehabilitate you. You only get less connected to good people while you are in jail and more connected with bad ones. Actually, I learned about how to rob a bank from someone in jail.”
He was released under supervised conditions in May 2024 after completing a two-year stint behind bars.
This past September, after being back on the streets for a little over a year — he struck again, continuing on his decade-long pattern of bank-related-banditry and was busted in five more bank heists from Greenwich Village to Central Park South, between August and September.
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Despite already being on supervised release from his prior charge — and having a rap sheet that included 34 prior robbery charges — lefty Judge Jeffery Gershuny, appointed by former Mayor Bill De Blasio 2019, disregarded the prosecutors request for $50,000 cash bail or $150,000 bond, and let the serial thief run free on supervised release.
The 49-year-old judge was demoted to only hearing misdemeanor cases, after The Post revealed in August that the lefty had whipped out his own gun on the bench during a hearing in a weapons case in Brooklyn criminal court. His pay was slashed and was moved to night court in Manhattan Criminal Court, law enforcement sources said.