A Brooklyn jury convicted Randazzo of brandishing a firearm during a bank robbery. A conviction on that count is not the consecutive seven-year minimum until sentencing.

A jury conviction for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence is guilt on that count, not the sentence. Vincenzo Randazzo, 60, of Brooklyn, was convicted Sept. 24, 2026, after a two-day trial before U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon; the mandatory seven-year minimum must run consecutively to the bank-robbery sentence, and neither term is imposed until sentencing, separate from his Aug. 26 plea to the robbery itself.

The case is the March 5, 2026 robbery of an Empire State Bank branch in Brooklyn, docketed as E.D.N.Y. 26-CR-74 (CBA). On Aug. 26, 2026, before trial, Randazzo pleaded guilty to the bank robbery. The jury trial that followed was on the brandishing count. A plea to the robbery and a verdict on brandishing are two different steps. The plea admits the robbery. The verdict finds the firearm count.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York said the trial proof was that Randazzo entered the bank, displayed and pointed a loaded firearm at a bank employee, demanded money, stole more than $6,000, fled in a vehicle with a concealed license plate, and discarded clothing worn during the robbery. He was arrested March 17, 2026. A search of his residence recovered currency from the robbery and four firearms with ammunition and magazines. Three of those firearms resembled the one brandished. In a recorded post-arrest interview, he admitted entering the bank, pointing a loaded firearm at a teller, and taking money from two tellers. That is the proof the office described. It is the record the jury heard, not a sentence.

When he is sentenced, the brandishing count carries a mandatory minimum of seven years that must run consecutively to the sentence for the bank robbery. Consecutive and mandatory describe the exposure on that count. They are not a judgment until Judge Amon imposes the terms. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.