WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts issued the following news: Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., has named five new chairs of Judicial Conference committees and extended the term of five current chairs by one year. The appointments took effect Oct. 1. * Judge Robert J. Jonker (Michigan-Western) succeeded Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod (Fifth Circuit) as chair of the Committee on Codes of Conduct. * Judge Michael Y. Scudder (Seventh Circuit) was extended for one y more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (TNSres) -- The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) issued the following news on Oct. 2, 2024: * * * Assesses the technical practicality of four design concepts * * * NEW YORK - Amtrak, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), and NJ TRANSIT released today the engineering feasibility study, "Doubling Trans-Hudson Train Capacity at New York Penn Station" (NYP), that analyzes the potential of four concepts to double train capacity at the station during t more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against of California, the former chief executive officer and majority shareholder of a based carbon credit project developer, charging fraud and false, misleading, or inaccurate reports relating to voluntary carbon credits. The CFTC also issued orders fili more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: NEW YORK Enforcement and Removal Operations New York City arrested a 36-year-old Mexican citizen and member of the Benkard Barrio Kings, a local gang involved in narcotics and firearms trafficking, Sept. 20. ERO New York City's Newburgh office's Fugitive Operations Team arrested the noncitizen outside his residence without incident, pursuant to a criminal warr more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: NEW YORK On Sept. 28, Enforcement and Removal Operations New York City arrested Javier Jose Albornoz Marchan, 22, an unlawfully present Venezuelan citizen and member of the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization, who was convicted by the Bronx County Supreme Court of criminal possession of a weapon possession of a firearm. Albornoz was one of eight  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * Nine Charged in Five Separate Cases for Crimes Ranging from Murder to Assault * * * The Justice Department today announced charges in five cases addressing violence at New York City's federal pretrial detention facility, the Metropolitan Detention Center, (MDC), located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. These include charges against inmates for the murder of Uriel Whyte on June 7, the murder of Edwin Cord more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: TD Securities (USA) LLC (TD Securities), a securities firm based in New York, has entered into a resolution with the Justice Department to resolve criminal charges concerning a scheme to defraud that involved hundreds of episodes of unlawful trading in the secondary (cash) market for U.S. Treasuries. TD Securities entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) in connection with a criminal informatio more PR

NEW YORK, Oct. 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Katrina W. Berger, the Executive Associate Director of Homeland Security Investigations ("HSI"); Anne Milgram, the Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA"); William S. Walker, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of HSI; Frank A more PR

NEW YORK, Oct. 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Oct. 2, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James E. Dennehy, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), announced today the unsealing of charges against KENNETH NEWCOMBE and TRIDIP GOSWAMI in connection with a scheme to commit fraud in the carbon  more PR

BROOKLYN, New York, Oct. 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release on Oct. 2, 2024: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Erlene King was charged with wire fraud in connection with her attempt to steal funds from New York City's Campaign Finance Board (CFB). Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York and James E. Dennehy, Assistant Director in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York more PR

NEW YORK, Oct. 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Oct. 2, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jocelyn E. Strauber, the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation ("DOI"), and James E. Dennehy, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), announced the unsealing of a Complaint charging more PR

BROOKLYN, New York, Oct. 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2024: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Da'Vante Bolton, an employee of the New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS), pleaded guilty to accepting bribes, admitting that he smuggled contraband into a juvenile detention facility in exchange for illegal payments. On September 3, 2024, September 10, 2024 and September 26, 2024,  more PR

NEW YORK, Oct. 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Oct. 2, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARTIN HANDLER was sentenced today to 58 months in prison for defrauding the federal Head Start program, misappropriating over $1 million from his federally-funded childcare company, and tax evasion. HANDLER pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Jennifer H. R more PR

BROOKLYN, New York, Oct. 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2024: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Leniz Escobar, also known as "Diablita," an associate of the Leeward Locos Salvatruchas (Leeward) and Brentwood Locos Salvatruchas (Brentwood) cliques of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, a violent transnational criminal organization, was sentenced by United States Second Circu more PR

ALBANY, New York, Oct. 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2024: Anthony Luizzi, age 24, of Halfmoon, New York, was sentenced today to 210 months in prison, and to pay a $10,000 fine, for drug and gun crimes in connection with his trafficking of large amounts of fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine, and his possession of more than 30 firearms. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman; Frank A. Tarentino III, S more PR

NEW YORK, Oct. 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ABILASH KURIEN was sentenced to 32 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman in connection with a massive scheme to defraud Polar Air Cargo Worldwide, Inc. ("Polar"), a leading cargo airline, of more than $32 million dollars in revenue. KUR more PR

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, Oct. 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release on Oct. 2, 2024: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Naquann Simmons, age 30, of New York, New York, Eva Kelly Smith, age 31, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Eugene David Deininger, age 50, of Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, were indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms more PR

NEW YORK, Oct. 2 -- The Smithsonian Institution Cooper Hewitt, a design museum, issued the following news: "Making Home--Smithsonian Design Triennial," opening Nov. 2 at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, features 25 debut commissions that illustrate the ways design is embedded in contemporary life. Ranging from domestic objects to built environments to social systems, the exhibition considers home as an expansive framework with varying cultural and environmental contexts, and "making ho more PR

KINGS POINT, New York, Oct. 3 -- The Maritime Administration's U.S. Merchant Marine Academy issued the following news release on Oct. 2, 2024: As Jewish people around the world observe Rosh Hashanah, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) proudly shares the recent dedication of two new Torah mantles at the Mariners' Memorial Chapel. The dedication made possible by the generosity of Kings Point Alums Joseph Schwartzstein, '96 and Alex Rosenberg, '69, took place during the Academy's Homecoming  more PR

WEST POINT, New York, Oct. 3 -- The U.S. Military Academy issued the following news: By Eric S. Bartelt, West Point Public Affairs Specialist West Point will welcome Taylor A. Cathey as the new Garrison Command Sergeant Major during a change of responsibility ceremony at 10 a.m. Oct. 4 outside of Building 148, located adjacent to the Clinton parking lot, Trophy Point. Cathey had time to speak about her new leadership venture at West Point, the importance of family as a Soldier, and how that  more PR