Timothy D. Sini

TIMOTHY D. SINI

Democratic

BACKGROUND:

• Sini, 41, of Babylon, has served as Suffolk County district attorney since January 2018.
• Previously, Sini had spent 18 months as Suffolk County police commissioner, nearly five years as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a year as a Suffolk deputy county executive for public safety. He also worked in private legal practice and as a clerk for two federal judges.
• Sini received a bachelor’s degree from American University in Washington, D.C., and a law degree from Brooklyn Law School. He has a certificate in executive management from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

ISSUES:

• Sini said he is running on his record tackling the MS-13 gang issue, environmental crimes such as illegal dumping and reforming the district attorney’s office after former Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota was convicted for his role in helping to cover up the police beating of an inmate. Sini cited a drop in the county crime rate, including a significant reduction in MS-13 gang violence.
• Sini said he has overhauled the office’s training program, connected human trafficking victims to nonprofits that can help them and developed drug diversion programs for nonviolent offenders. His office has brought manslaughter charges against drug dealers to hold them accountable for overdose deaths. He said he also has invested in technology, including tools to digitize the office, surveillance that has helped prevent planned crimes and a DNA extraction tool used to investigate the Gilgo Beach murders.
• Sini created a special narcotics bureau, which uses electronic surveillance to target large scale drug distribution, a public integrity unit to investigate political corruption cases and a conviction integrity unit to look into wrongful convictions.

Watch DA Tim Sini and challenger Ray Tierney answer LIers' questions in a virtual town hall.