Here’s another quarter-century in prison for ya, Mad Maks.
A Manhattan judge today promised to tack on an additional 25 years to the certain life sentence that Maksim “Butcher of Brighton Beach” Gelman faces in Brooklyn when sentenced tomorrow for admittedly slaughtering four people back in February.
Gelman had pleaded guilty last month to the Brooklyn end of his blood-drenched, 28-hour spree, admitting he’d stabbed his mother’s boyfriend to death, stolen that victim’s car and fatally mowed down a pedestrian, then stabbed to death the object of his affections, beautiful Yelena Bulchenko, and her mother.
A Brooklyn judge can give the 24-year-old Gelman back-to-back sentences of 25 years to life for each of those four murders at a sentencing on that plea scheduled for tomorrow.
Today, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Richard Carruthers accepted Gelman’s plea of guilty to attempted murder for the Manhattan end of the spree — the stabbing of Joseph Lozito on a No. 3 train at Times Square.
Carruthers promised to give Gelman an additional 25-to-life sentence on Lozito’s stabbing.
“You’ll serve out your other sentence first,” Carruthers told the smirking, orange-jumpsuited Gelman. “And then you will serve this one.”
“Yes,” Gelman answered loudly, sounding both bored and put upon.
Asked if it was true that on Feb. 12 he intended to murder Lozito, and then attempted to do so, he answered again, “Yes.”
Gelman was in the news this week for a psycho-sounding Post jailhouse interview, in which he said he planned to redeem himself in the eyes of New Yorkers by killing one-time fellow jail mate Levi Aron, the Brooklyn man accused of killing and dismembering 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky.
Aron was moved after Gelman shared his murderous musings with yet another inmate.