New York’s parole board members are making hefty salaries, despite receiving vast criticism for releasing more than 40 cop killers. 

Kathy Hochul’s parole board make a whopping $190,000 a year to examine the cases of New York’s criminals, including 43 cop killers who they’re allowed the release of, according to the New York Post. 

David McClary, who killed an NYPD officer in 1988, could be the 44th released if his parole hearing goes well later this month. 

But the board has more scandal than how many they grant parole to, as one is married to a criminal.  

Tana Agostini married murderer Thomas O’Sullivan while he was still in prison and then pressured the board to release him in 2013, according to The Post. 

At the time, she was working as a staffer at the state Assembly committee that was overseeing prisons and used her position to help advocate for O’Sullivan’s release, the outlet reported. 

O’Sullivan spent three decades in prison for the 1892 murder of a drug dealer in Queens. His wife was appointed to the board in 2017 by former governor and NYC mayor hopeful, Andrew Cuomo. 

Agostini is joined by 10 other Democrats on the board of 16, with the majority appointed by the disgraced former mayor. 

New York’s parole board are making hefty salaries, despite receiving criticism for releasing nearly 50 cop killers. But the board has more scandal than how many they grant parole to, as Tana Agostini married murderer Thomas O’Sullivan, whom she helped get released

David McClary, who killed an NYPD officer in 1988, could be the 44th released if his parole hearing goes well later this month

Hochul has filled five seats and the board is still not at max capacity. Some of her appointees were denied for being too ‘closely associated with the system we seek to reform,’ a caucus said at the time. 

Most members are serving as holdovers, with some of their terms expiring half a decade ago, The Post found. 

Many have a law background, such as with Legal Aid Society – a public defender organization – and other are prisoner-rights advocates, the publication said. A few have a background in the Department of Corrections. 

The board has faced much criticism about its track record of releasing cop killers and other criminals, with Former Governor George Pataki accusing Cuomo of ‘stacking the parole board with his leftist friends who have no appreciation for the sacrifice our police make.’ 

He called the board’s decision to release cop killers as ‘horrific and inexcusable.’ 

‘It’s hard for me to believe that anyone who cares about public safety or protecting the police who risk their lives for our safety could have allowed this to happen — but Andrew Cuomo certainly did,’ he lamented to the publication. 

Some of the guidelines members look at when deciding to release someone on parole include if they’ve made any ‘progress’ behind bars, as well as societal risk, and the nature of the original crime. 

Deciding if criminals will see the light of day again is a lucrative deal, especially under Cuomo, who gave out big pay raises for members. 

Agostini is joined by 10 other Democrats on the board 16, with the majority appointed by the disgraced Former Mayor Andrew Cuomo. They make $190,000 a year after receiving raises under Cuomo and Kathy Hochul 

While the Democrat was in power, he bumped their salaries up 67 percent, according to The Post, raising it from $101,600 to $170,000. 

Hochul raised it an additional 12 percent in January, bringing their heavy salaries to an incredible $190,000, despite reviewing nearly half as many cases, The Post found. 

Four years ago, the board look at roughly 20,500 cases, but in 2022, it only looked at 11,300. 

And with the board’s reputation, a former NYPD officer called the salary an ‘insane amount to pay people whose only qualification is that they’ll release every criminal they meet,’ they told The Post. 

State Senator Tom O’Mara called for parole board to stop releasing cop killers last summer, according to a press release. 

‘When will Albany Democrats finally come to their senses?’ he questioned at the time. ‘When will Governor Hochul and the Legislature’s Democrat majorities face the fact that this state is becoming less and less safe, and more and more violent?’ 

He suggested state Democrats start attacking soft-on-crime policies. 

‘They can start by shutting down a state Parole Board that keeps making the release of cop killers as a top priority,’ he lamented. 

The board has faced much criticism about its track record of releasing cop killers and other criminals, with Former Governor George Pataki accusing Cuomo of ‘stacking the parole board with his leftist friends who have no appreciation for the sacrifice our police make’ 

While the Democrat was in power, he bumped their salaries up 67 percent, according to The Post, raising it from $101,600 to $170,000. Now, the disgraced governor is running for NYC mayor 

‘It’s wrong, it’s disrespectful to the families of these fallen officers, and it fuels the state of lawlessness that has become pervasive inside New York’s prisons and throughout our streets and neighborhoods.’ 

Then-Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt – who is now the minority leader – agreed, saying: ‘[Democrats] sadly know full well that members of the Parole Board who support their release will be praised by some of the very people whose job it is to make laws.’ 

Pataki criticized the parole board under Cuomo in 2019 after they released a man who raped a 16-year-old girl in a barbaric murder in 1980. 

Richard LaBarbera was sentenced to 25 years for the second-degree murder of Paula Bohevesky – who was hit in the head with a brick, stabbed five times and raped twice just one block away from her Pearl River home as she returned from the library.

At the time, Pataki called on Cuomo to speak out about his pending release. 

‘The governor can certainly ask the parole board to take another look and to look at the facts, to look at the lack of remorse, and if they did, they would have to see that this man should not be out in the streets,’ Pataki told Fox News.

‘I have been very careful about not commenting on state government policies since I left office, but this release of this rapist and murderer is so hideous to me, I really feel an obligation to speak out so that first, hopefully, it won’t happen, but if it sadly does, that it won’t happen again.’

Despite his insistence, governors cannot overrule the board.