A former New York State Parole Board commissioner was given the boot after objecting to the release of a convicted killer who allegedly vowed to torture and murder her in a racist tirade after she voted to keep him behind bars, she told The Post.<\/p>\n
Tyece Drake said she repeatedly warned state officials about threats allegedly made by murderer Matthew Svanberg, 53, before he was granted parole in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Svanberg spent 25\u00a0years behind bars<\/a> for fatally shooting 26-year-old gas station attendant Dennis Folk in the face during a robbery at a Long Island service station in 1993.<\/p>\n Matthew Svanberg went on the run for five years before he was captured and found guilty of murdering a gas station attendant. News 12<\/p>\n Svanberg, who was 20 at the time, fled to Las Vegas after the murder and evaded capture for five years until he was nabbed by police and extradited to New York.<\/p>\n The inmate flew into a rage when Drake, 53, denied him parole in 2023, according to a letter obtained by The Post a\u00a0fellow inmate sent to the state Parole Board the following year.<\/p>\n \u201cHe when (sic) on a racist rant about how he will kill that \u2018Black B\u2014h Drake, that F\u2014ing N\u2014-r B\u2014h,\u2019 if he ever gets his change (sic),\u201d according to the letter from an inmate in prison with Svanberg at Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Sullivan County.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018How dare that f\u2014\u2013g black b\u2014h think that she is above a white man like me,’\u201d the letter said. \u201c\u2018She is beneath us. How dare she gets above her station.’\u201d<\/p>\n Svanberg said that one day, \u201cHe will teach her to respect a white man like him. That when she beg (sic) for her life, he will torture her then kill her,\u201d according to the letter.<\/p>\n Svanberg was \u201cextremely angry\u201d at Drake and \u201che felt that she was emotionally torturing him,\u201d according to the letter.<\/p>\n Dennis John Folk, 26, was shot in the face during a robbery while he worked the night shift at a Getty gas station in Ridge, NY. Change.org<\/p>\n Drake, a mental health professional appointed to the parole board in 2017, said she took her responsibility to protect the public seriously.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was angry because I asked him so many questions,\u201d said Drake, one of three board members who interviewed Svanberg. \u201cIt\u2019s a murder case. I have to be thorough so that I am sure that if I\u2019m releasing someone that the public is going to be safe.\u201d<\/p>\n During the hearing, Svanberg didn\u2019t seem to be taking responsibility for his victim\u2019s death, and he bragged about the killing while he was on the run, Drake said.<\/p>\n Drake wrote the decision denying Svanberg parole, but he appealed in a Dutchess County Court and won a new hearing after a judge decided the killer couldn\u2019t be denied parole based on the seriousness of his crime. <\/p>\n At Svanberg\u2019s second parole hearing, far-left board member Tana Agostini was on the panel<\/a>, and was among three board members who interviewed him. Agostini was the lead interviewer on the case and wrote the decision to release him, citing the judge\u2019s court decision.<\/p>\n Matthew Svanberg allegedly threatened to kill a state parole board member who denied his parole and was later sprung in a second hearing. News 12<\/p>\n