NY AG candidate Komatireddy meets with subway shoving victim as she calls out Tish James for transit terrors

Republican attorney general candidate Saritha Komatireddy met the victim of a terrifying subway shoving Friday — as she accused Democratic incumbent Letitia James of fueling New York’s “broken” revolving-door justice system.Komatireddy, a former federal prosecutor, was endorsed by Lydia Zuniga, a 65-year-old NYU security guard who was randomly pushed onto Bronx train tracks by a deranged nut in August.“This is a total preventable act of violence,” Komatireddy said from the Bronx’s Rebekah Rehabilitation Center, where Zuniga — who had to get reconstructive surgery on her knee — is still recovering months after the unprovoked attack.“The lack of prosecution of cases, the failure to enforce the transit laws, and the current broken bail laws, that Tish James championed, and continues to champion to this day mean that repeat offenders are arrested and released, arrested and released, over and over again,” she added.Komtireddy, who said she was “honored” to have Zuniga’s endorsement, vowed to make stopping similar crimes a priority of if she wins on November 3 — then blamed the state AG for allowing it to happen in the first place.“We have people in office right now like Letitia James who thinks it’s a good idea to let criminals out into our community and they are  ideologically committed to that idea but then they totally ignore the results, the effects on the actual constituent,” Komatireddy said.She vowed that if elected, she’d partner with the MTA and launch a transit crime “strike force.” “We’re going to take repeat and violent offenders out of the subways altogether by banning them from subways for a time if they’ve proven to be repeat or violent offenders,” she said.Zuniga’s alleged attacker — 29-year-old Juan Nieves — turned himself in at a psychiatric clinic the day after the August 27 shove and admitted what he did, authorities have said.The sicko allegedly snuck up behind Zuniga on the No.5 train platfor...