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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday that he appointed a convicted armed robber to advise him on the criminal justice system because he wants to take experience and analysis from all New Yorkers into account in order to “build a city for each and every person.”

Mysonne Linen, 49, previously served seven years behind bars in state prison for robbery cases dating back to the 1990s. His appointment to Mamdani’s City Hall transition team was announced in a Nov. 26 Instagram post from Until Freedom, a New York City–based social-justice organization, where Linen is a leader.

“We put together a team of more than 400 New Yorkers who are on 17 different committees, and these are New Yorkers who bring with them both a fluency of the pol

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