Thug’s rap sheet no bar to city office

Mayor de Blasio tapped a violent felon to a senior role in his administration’s Community Affairs Unit.

Maceo H. Karriem, 29, served as Brooklyn borough director of the unit in September.

The CAU is responsible for building relationships with local communities and constituents.

His rap sheet is long. It began in 2009 when he was 17 years old, when he was busted for allegedly stealing an iPod while forcing three victims to stand against a wall in Queens.

He pleaded guilty to felony robbery a month later and was sentenced to a year in jail, according to a spokesperson for the Queens district attorney.

In 2011 he was arrested again, for violating an order of protection.

A final run-in with the law came in September 2019 when a 34-year-old woman in Queens called

police and alleged that Karriem (inset) “broke the chain on the door to her apartment and struck her numerous times with closed fists.”

Karriem, an active Democrat who was president of the La Guardia Community College Democrats, did not respond to requests for comment. Days after The Post began making inquires to the Mayor’s Office, the city fired him.

“This employee was let go earlier this week for performance issues,” a rep for de Blasio said. City Hall refused to say what the performance issues were or what it knows about his criminal history.