WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 New York Republican attorney general candidate Saritha Komatireddy dropped a 52-count “public indictment” against state Attorney General Letitia James (D), accusing her of “dereliction” of duty ahead of their Thursday debate.<\/p>\n
The accusations were part of a campaign stunt that Komatireddy, a former federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York, used to argue that James has focused too much on prosecuting President Trump<\/a> to fulfill her duty to New Yorkers during her two terms, the New York Post reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe People do not allege that the defendant has been idle. They allege that she has been busy with the wrong things,\u201d Komatireddy said, who listed the \u201cExasperated People of the State of New York\u201d as plaintiffs.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile the defendant built a national reputation, much of the work of the office went undone,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n The faux court document<\/a> included “counts” against James, such as failing to intervene as New Yorkers froze to death last winter, allowing mentally ill and repeat offenders to stab and kill people while supporting the state’s cashless bail law, and permitting an increase in crime and homelessness.<\/p>\n \u201cNew Yorkers froze on sidewalks. New Yorkers were shoved onto subway tracks by men every part of the system already knew. New Yorkers were burned alive in train cars,\u201d the indictment states.<\/p>\n \u201cA family of five, three of them small children, died in a fire at an Endwell motel that a county used as a shelter. A Buffalo mother was shot in front of her three children by a man a court had released the day before,\u201d the fake document reads<\/p>\n Komatireddy claimed that James \u201cdid not aggressively prosecute Medicaid fraud and welfare fraud or deed theft or investigate tax-exempt not-for-profit groups including those operating homeless shelters.\u201d<\/p>\n She also alleged that opioid settlement money won in the name of those who died was \u201cspent on snowblowers and headsets\u201d and that shelter executives were paid seven figures from grants that James increased.<\/p>\n In the “demand for relief” section of the document, Komatireddy asked voters to oust James on Nov. 3 so that \u201cthe office be returned to a prosecutor who will use its powers for the purposes for which they were granted. To lock up repeat offenders, to bring dangerously mentally ill New Yorkers indoors and into treatment, and to root out the fraud that steals from the poor, the sick, and the taxpayer.\u201d<\/p>\n Komatireddy also demanded that an Office of Civil Commitment be opened under the attorney general’s purview, which would be staffed with law enforcement professionals and doctors, to address mentally unstable individuals on the streets.<\/p>\n The GOP candidate’s complaint includes the names of more than three dozen victims allegedly killed or badly injured by violent recidivists or mentally ill people who should be confined.<\/p>\n The dereliction of duty counts include:<\/p>\n – Counts 1-11 allege leaving mentally ill and homeless people on the street. \u201cThe People have found no evidence that in eight winters she (James) built a mechanism, brought a case, or made a demand to protect the homeless from the cold, that she sent the Charities Bureau to examine conditions inside a single shelter, or that she sought the commitment of one New Yorker too sick to come indoors,\u201d the complaint reads.<\/p>\n – Counts 12-22 include repeat offenders, subway pushers, and \u201cthe war on police.\u201d James \u201csided with repeat offenders over their victims and over the police,\u201d Komatireddy alleged.<\/p>\n – Counts 23-24 highlight the increase in hate crimes and antisemitism, and Komatireddy calls for the attorney general’s office’s Hate Crimes Unit to take action.<\/p>\n