What’s in his pocket? Revenge.
The “Dapper Bandit” — the stylish stickup man who sported suits and dress shirts during his bank-robbery spree last year — told authorities he targeted Capital One institutions because the company had foreclosed on his home.
Dana Connor, 52, kicked off his one-man crime wave by knocking over three Capital One branches between Sept. 21 and Oct. 7.
He later struck at another branch, part of a total of 10 banks he held up before getting busted in January while hiding beneath a pile of dirty laundry in a Brooklyn apartment.
After his arrest, Connor confessed “he had ‘a personal vendetta against Capital One’ because the bank foreclosed on his home,” according to court papers.
Connor — who has already done two prison stints for bank robbery — didn’t mention his gripes against the banking giant when he appeared for sentencing yesterday in Manhattan federal court.
Instead, he tearfully blamed a crack addiction that he said has plagued him since the 1980s.
“I really, really need help,” he told the judge.
“I know I have a weakness. The drugs, the disease, have been eating me up for 50 years,” he said before breaking down.
Connor noted he had been clean for 14 years while living in Virginia but said he succumbed to his addiction after returning to New York in 2010.
“I broke down, got weak,” he said.
Connor said he even tried to get caught by hanging around the FBI headquarters in downtown Manhattan, “hoping they would recognize me.”
Judge Paul Engelmayer said the “sheer terror” Connor inflicted on the bank tellers by threatening to shoot if he didn’t get money was enough to justify a sentence harsher than the maximum 8³/ years called for in his plea deal.
But Engelmayer still slapped Connor with just eight years.
“I am very much struck by the obvious pain and remorse you feel,” the judge said. “It’s apparent on your face.”
Engelmayer also ordered Connor to pay back the $47,000-plus he netted from his holdups.
Asked for comment, a Capital One spokeswoman replied: “We’re going to decline to comment on the sentencing . . . and as a matter of practice and due to privacy concerns, we don’t comment on individual customer situations.”
At the time of his arrest, a law-enforcement source quipped that Connor “belongs in the bank-robbery Hall of Fame’’ given his lengthy rap sheet.