Tim Sini Wins Suffolk County DA Race

SUFFOLK COUNTY, NY — There's a new district attorney in town: Suffolk County voters turned out and cast their ballots for Tim Sini, who has an insurmountable lead over opponent Ray Perini. With 898 of 1,052 districts reporting, Sini leads Perini by a margin of 158,343 to 92,034.

A Democrat, Sini has said he ran for district attorney to "restore integrity to the office and make Suffolk County a safer place to live, work and raise a family."

Sini currently serves as the Suffolk County police commissioner. Following a scandal that ended in the federal prosecution of the former chief of department, he was appointed to this position in January of 2016.

Upon his appointment, Sini vowed to restore integrity to the leadership of the SCPD, reduce crime, improve community relations throughout the county, address the opioid epidemic by punishing dealers and helping the addicted and aggressively fight gang violence.

“Eradicating MS-13 is my mission," he said at the time. "As a federal prosecutor, I dismantled national gangs and as your police commissioner I am leading the fight to eliminate MS-13. As your Suffolk County District Attorney, I will continue to rid our county of violent street gangs and complete the mission we’ve set forth.”

Sini lives in Babylon, where he and his wife raise their three young children.

Also in the race was GOP nominee Ray Perini, an attorney who began working at the Kings County District Attorney's Office as an assistant DA in 1973. Between then and 1976, he tried numerous cases, including high-level narcotics prosecutions. In 1976, Perini was recruited by the Suffolk County DA to start the Narcotics Bureau. He remained as chief narcotics prosecutor until 1989.

The current DA, Thomas Spota, and his chief of investigations were arraigned last month on charges connected to covering up former police chief James Burke's assault on a man in custody in 2012 and the subsequent federal investigation, according to the U.S. Attorney's Eastern District of New York Office.