New Delhi, Dec. 10 -- A day after it came to light that New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani had appointed ex-convict rapper-turned-activist Mysonne Linen as a criminal justice advisor on his transition team, the widow of a cabbie mugged by the Mamdani appointee's former crew has spoken up.

"Are you crazy?," shocked woman from the Bronx told New York Post when she learnt that Linen, who served seven years in prison, had been named to advise Mamdani on the criminal justice system.

The woman went on to call the appoint plain "wrong"-"Somebody that committed that kind of crime and then you make him an advisor on criminality?," she told NYP.

49-year-old Linen was appointed last month in the 20-member criminal justice panel on Mamdani's...