Saritha Komatireddy

Republican

BACKGROUND

• Komatireddy, 42, of Manhattan, is a registered Republican and is running on the Republican and Conservative party lines in the general election. She is a former federal prosecutor and is a partner at the Holtzman Vogel Law Firm.
• She was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York for 12 years and prosecuted cases involving international drug cartels; terrorism, including members of Al-Qaeda; cyber crime; complex fraud and crimes against children. She also served as chief of staff for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and was deputy chief of appeals in the Eastern District of New York.
• Komatireddy has a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard College and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

ISSUES

• Komatireddy said that if elected she would work to “lock up repeat offenders” by supporting district attorneys at the local level, ensuring they have resources. She said she also would work with the State Legislature to change bail laws.
• She said she would work to provide residential treatment for people experiencing homelessness, building out treatment centers and launching an office of civil commitment staffed with law enforcement and health professionals to help intervene when someone is having a severe episode on the street. “We need to do better,” she said.
• Komatireddy said she would work to root out fraud inside and outside of state government. She pledged to make Medicaid fraud a priority, as well as other types of fraud, including impostor and confidence scams that prey on senior citizens.