STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A political ad posted Monday by the Staten Island Republican Party says judicial candidate Raymond Rodriguez “repeatedly let loose” a defendant who went on to murder a stranger.

Rodriguez on Tuesday fired back with an ad saying the Republicans “circulated a deliberately false narrative” which he argues was perpetuated by a misleading New York Post article in 2017.

The defendant in the Staten Island murder case, Dantey Moore, was sentenced in 2022 for the senseless stabbing in broad daylight of a 63-year-old grandmother in West Brighton.

Over the course of three years and eight convictions prior to the stabbing, Moore had spent multiple stints on Rikers Island. Rodriguez presided over a few of the defendant’s misdemeanor cases in Criminal Court.

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