PERSON: Anthony D’Esposito

U.S. House of Representatives

Member of Congress, representing New York’s 4th District

Anthony P. D’Esposito (born February 22, 1982) is an American politician and retired New York City Police Department detective. A Republican, he represented New York’s 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2023 to 2025. In 2024, he lost his re-election bid to Democrat Laura Gillen. His victory in the 2022 midterm election was considered a major upset, contributing to the narrow Republican majority in the House of Representatives.

Before entering politics, D’Esposito was a police officer with NYPD’s 73rd Precinct, and a detective assigned to the 73rd Precinct Detective Squad and the Military and Extended Leave Desk. He joined the NYPD in 2006 and worked there until retiring in 2020.

During his NYPD career, D’Esposito received four complaints: two for excessive force with one finding of “unsubstantiated” and the second of “exonerated”; one for an improper frisk, with a finding of “unsubstantiated,’ and one for an improper search, with a finding of “substantiated” and a recommendation of internal NYPD disciplinary proceedings. He was also reprimanded twice by the department: in 2007, for working as a DJ and serving alcohol in a nightclub without departmental permission, for which he was stripped of 15 vacation days; and in 2015, when he was docked 20 vacation days for failing to secure his firearm, which was stolen after he left it unattended in a car.

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