New Yorkers who care about crime, the mentally ill and protecting taxpayer funds should watch Thursday\u2019s debate between Attorney General Letitia James and challenger Saritha Komatireddy.<\/p>\n
The contrast will be unmistakable.<\/p>\n
Komatireddy, a Harvard-trained ex-Biden official and federal prosecutor, will likely recount her 32-count \u201cpolitical indictment\u201d of the AG and to ask public to find her \u201cguilty\u201d when they vote in November.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a well-deserved indictment.<\/p>\n
Komatireddy\u2019s top \u201ccharge\u201d against James? Abandoning her official duties<\/a> and abusing her office to play politics.<\/p>\n \t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n How? Mainly, by endlessly slapping President Donald Trump and his administration with meritless lawsuits \u2014 which win her headlines <\/a>but inevitably get shot down in court.<\/p>\n In a two-year span alone, James sued Team Trump a jaw-dropping 66 times.<\/p>\n She also helped fellow hack Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg bring a bogus criminal case<\/a> against Trump, and filed her own trash civil case against him<\/a>, accusing him of defrauding banks \u2014 even though the banks made money, never complained and hope to do more business with him. (Both ultimately failed.)<\/p>\n All that, of course, was to keep a campaign promise to probe and prosecute Trump \u2014 even though she couldn\u2019t name any crimes he may have committed.<\/p>\n This summer, a whistleblower in her office, former prosecutor Daniel Wiesenfeld, reported he was ordered to target Trump, despite the lack of \u201ca credible reason.\u201d<\/p>\n He now alleges <\/a>her office is threatening him with \u201ccivil and\/or criminal action\u201d if he doesn\u2019t destroy evidence supporting his claim.<\/p>\n James must\u2019ve learned her tactics from the organized crime gangs she\u2019s failing to take down.<\/p>\n Worse: She set on using her power to play politics <\/a>again in her probe of the Cornell 7 for sexual assault.<\/p>\n How on Earth can anyone expect a fair probe when she\u2019s already concluded \u201cwhat the young woman has been forced to endure is horrific\u201d and has vowed \u201cto stand\u201d with her?<\/p>\n Nor will hiring outside counsel to help with that probe, as she plans to do, cover up her bias; she never should should\u2019ve accepted the probe in the first place.<\/p>\n Komatireddy, for her part, highlights the crime and fraud James has ignored.<\/p>\n Average \u201cNew Yorkers don\u2019t feel safe,\u201d she charges.<\/p>\n James dodges, claiming her office focuses primarily on civil, not criminal cases.<\/p>\n But don\u2019t buy it: An AG has plenty of power to pursue cases, such as, say, when prosecutors fall down on the job \u2014 for instance, when it comes to retail theft rings, hate crimes and other threats.<\/p>\n Plus, James has pushed pro-criminal policies for her entire career, like bail reform, a key reason overall crime in the city remains higher<\/a> than before cashless bail became law.<\/p>\n