The Marine veteran who strangled a fellow New York City subway passenger to death has been hired by a premier Silicon Valley investment firm – two months after he was staring at a 20-year prison sentence.
Daniel Penny was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter in December 2024 after he grappled Jordan Neely, 30, to the ground and held him around the neck for about six minutes in a chokehold during a frantic subway ride in 2023.