{"id":679517,"date":"2021-08-24T11:05:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T15:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=679517"},"modified":"2021-08-24T11:05:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T15:05:59","slug":"cuomo-grants-clemency-to-weather-underground-member-serving-time-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuomo-grants-clemency-to-weather-underground-member-serving-time-for-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo Grants Clemency to Weather Underground Member Serving Time for Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcuomo-grants-clemency-to-weather-underground-member-serving-time-for-murder%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=679517&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.642857142857\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin lobbied governor on behalf of father, David Gilbert<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1328718665-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s1.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1328718665-736x491.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s1.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1328718665-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s1.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1328718665-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s1.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1328718665-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s1.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1328718665-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/s1.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1328718665-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/s1.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1328718665-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\t(Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 August 24, 2021 11:00 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"93.156806615776\">\n<p>As one of his last acts before resigning from office on Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) granted clemency to five murderers, including a former member of the Weather Underground who is the father of San Francisco\u2019s district attorney, Chesa Boudin.<\/p>\n<p>David Gilbert is serving a 75-year sentence for second-degree murder for his role in the 1981 robbery of a Brinks security truck in Nyack, N.Y. Two police officers and a security guard were killed during the heist, which Weather Underground members carried out along with members of the Black Liberation Army. Gilbert was driving a getaway car with his partner, Kathy Boudin. Cuomo\u2019s grant of clemency will allow Gilbert to appear before the state parole board prior to his potential release from jail. Chesa Boudin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/home\/article\/Grondahl-DA-seeks-clemency-for-father-60s-15750537.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lobbied<\/a> Cuomo last year to grant clemency to his father, saying he hoped the governor &#8220;will show courage and mercy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boudin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chesaboudin\/status\/1429981769814614021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> on Monday that his &#8220;heart is bursting&#8221; from Cuomo\u2019s decision. Boudin is part of a wave of left-wing prosecutors who swept into local office in recent years promising criminal justice reform. He has come under fire for releasing inmates and deferring prosecution for a variety of lower-level crimes. His critics have blamed the policies for a crime surge in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo\u2019s grant of clemency, the press release of which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-cuomo-grants-clemency-six-individuals\">removed<\/a> within hours, drew immediate backlash, with one New York state assemblyman saying that Cuomo had betrayed law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only a sociopath, such as Andrew Cuomo, would think that David Gilbert, a man who participated in a heinous attack on law-abiding citizens and law enforcement alike, deserves to be eligible for a pardon,&#8221; said Assemblyman Mike Lawler, a Republican whose district includes Nyack.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo, who resigned following allegations that he made unwanted sexual advances to nearly a dozen women, said that Gilbert has &#8220;made significant contributions&#8221; to AIDS education programs while in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert, 76, was an early member of the Weather Underground, which formed in 1969 to protest the Vietnam War and support the Black Power movement. The left-wing terror group orchestrated a series of bombings in the 1970s. The group was allegedly behind the 1970 firebombing of the home of a New York Supreme Court justice who was set to preside over a trial of members of the Black Panthers. Three Weather Underground members died later that year while making bombs that they hoped to detonate at a social event held at Fort Dix, an Army base in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy Boudin was helping make the bombs but escaped unharmed after the explosion. She was paroled in 2003 and is currently co-director of the Center for Justice at Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p>Chesa Boudin was 14 months old when his parents were arrested over the Brinks robbery. He was raised by Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground founder who worked closely with Barack Obama. After graduating from Yale University, Boudin served as a translator for Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. He worked as a public defender before his election to San Francisco district attorney.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin lobbied governor on behalf of father, David Gilbert  (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)  Chuck Ross \u2022 August &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}