NYCs Burberry Bandit back behind bars on fresh bank robbery charges

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.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.“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 pr...