{"id":369476,"date":"2026-10-10T01:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369476\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T01:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:32:11","slug":"former-u-s-justice-department-prosecutor-on-ag-debate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369476\/","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Justice Department prosecutor on AG debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two candidates for state attorney general, Democratic incumbent Letitia James and Republican challenger Saritha Komatireddy, sparred during an hourlong debate on Spectrum News 1 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Political analysts have <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/politics\/2026\/10\/09\/attorney-general-candidates-trade-blows-in-fiery-ny1-debate-letitia-james-saritha-komatireddy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weighed in on each candidate\u2019s performance.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Capital Tonight wanted to hear what a fellow attorney and former federal prosecutor thought of the debate. Michael Koenig is an attorney with more than three decades of experience. He\u2019s currently a partner in the New York City law firm of Friedman Kaplan, as well as a former federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Koenig spoke with Capital Tonight\u2019s Susan Arbetter about how the work of the attorney general must be done \u201cwithout fear or favor,\u201d but that getting elected to that office takes political skill.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791595931_543_nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two candidates for state attorney general, Democratic incumbent Letitia James and Republican challenger Saritha Komatireddy, sparred during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[204,202,38490,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,108,87,201,200],"class_list":["post-369476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-capital-tonight","tag-capital-tonight-interviews","tag-decision-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-politics","tag-susan-arbetter","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}