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Contact data for spokespeople at the investigating agencies that develop
our civil and criminal cases are also found on this page. 
Public Affairs Office U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Faith
S. Hochberg, United States Attorney
when
you are on deadline
Our NewsBriefs, budget lines, News Releases, and advisories get posted
as quickly as possible... sometimes with typos or other minor errors. By
the time that files are deleted from this website and archived in the District
of New Jersey section of the U.S.Department
of Justice's Website in Washington those errors should have been corrected.
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of District of New Jersey charging documents should obtain stamped hard
copies from the U.S. District Court Clerk in the appropriate New Jersey
vicinage: Newark, Trenton or Camden.
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every
document isn't posted
We try to post many News Releases and charging documents from the District
of New Jersey, but we can't guarantee that all case events will receive
news releases, or that all news releases and charging documents will have
been posted here or archived in Washington. Some documents are posted here
but not archived in DC. This website is also vulnerable to vacations, illnesses,
phone and server problems, any one of which could stymie our ability to
update files.
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the "news" in New Jersey
Our websites, newsFlash alerts and telephone UpDates are tools to help
you to anticipate personnel needs for an upcoming case event in our district.
Because these services are asynchronous, you can follow news events in
the District of New Jersey without restricting fact-gathering only to times
when the Public Affairs Office is staffed.
the
UpDate Line: Our voice UpDate Line -- 973-645-3657 -- features a recorded
message with scheduling and just-public case event information. It is revised
at least twice daily: once by 10 each morning with a look at scheduled
upcoming case events and then around 4 each afternoon with a look at the
next day's schedule.
When news breaks the UpDate message is changed -- usually no later than the time that we begin faxing any related News Release and Charging Document.
If you are planning to staff a scheduled news conference or attend a court proceeding in the District of New Jersey check the UpDate Line before leaving for the event and again en route. If the Public Affairs Office were to be advised of any schedule change, the first place that the time change or postponement would be announced would be in an UpDate Line message revision.
E-mail:
If your news organization is regularly covering our office -- or if there
is one New Jersey case you are closely following because of interest in
your coverage area -- you will want to be included in newsFlash alerts
we send out each time that a News Release, Advisory or associated charging
document is first posted in the NewsWatch section.
Credentialed reporters and news organizations in our newsFlash list receive brief messages each time we change the NewsWatch Section. The E-mail message includes the url for the NewsWatch section so your E-mail client can spawn a web browser and go directly to that section.
Note: Reload every time you visit the NewsWatch Section to ensure that your browser is accessing our latest revision/postings.
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where to find us
The U.S. Attorney's Office is in Newark, New Jersey, on the Seventh Floor
of the Peter W. Rodino Federal Building at 970 Broad Street, the corner
of Broad and Walnut Streets.
A receptionist is usually on duty on the Seventh Floor from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each workday. If you are sending a courier to pick up documents that Public Affairs has left for you with the receptionist, be sure that your courier knows when the receptionist will be leaving. The courier should also be aware that parking access in the area is restricted.
The Rodino Building is across the street from the federal courtrooms in the Post Office and Courthouse on Federal Square and next door to the new Martin Luther King Federal Courthouse on Walnut Street.
To reach us from New York City, take a 15-minute PATH or Amtrak train ride from Penn Station to Newark Penn Station, then a short cab ride or a 20-minute walk to our offices. If you are driving to our office, vehicles should exit New Jersey Turnpike Exit 13A coming from the South, or Exit 15W coming from the North. The turnpike exits are minutes from our office. Newark International Airport is a short drive or cab ride from the office.
Several private parking lots are in the federal courts area. Because of security requirements, no vehicles -- including press vehicles -- may park next to or near the federal buildings.
Our mailing address: Public Affairs Office, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Seventh Floor, 970 Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey 07102
our
numbers
Please direct all inquiries to the public affairs office at 973-645-2888.
After four rings the phone will transfer into VoiceMail.
Reporters following-up a just-distributed News Release should contact the person, usually an Assistant U.S. Attorney, whose name and number appears on the News Release's cover page.
A reporter calling about an ongoing public case event (trial, sentencing, arraignment, or bail hearing) can also call the Assistant U.S. Attorney ("AUSA") directly.
All other questions should be directed to the Public Affairs Office. If public information is available about the subject into which you are looking, we are probably able to locate the person or document that you need more quickly than if you tried to contact the office directly.
If someone from Public Affairs is working out of our Trenton or Camden office, please continue to call the main Newark number.
When your call to Newark is answered by Voicemail you can immediately stop our outgoing announcement to leave your message by touching the pound "#" sign on your telephone keypad. Don't record the day and time that you're leaving your message; our system automatically stamps the date and time on each message.
A Voicemail message left outside of regular working hours may not receive a reply until the next working day.
urgent
request?
Reporters should listen to our entire Voicemail message on 973-645-2888,
with pencil in hand, since it will include up-to-date paging instructions
for Alan Ables or whomever else is handling Public Affairs. If you
page us after working hours your request should be truly urgent. Please
recognize that no matter how urgent your inquiry, we may still not be able
to address after-hours requests until we're back in the office during regular
work hours. Pagers, like cellular phones, are sometimes ineffective in
blackout areas and on occasion messages have not been received.
paging us
If you are on deadline with a truly urgent request you can page the Public
Affairs staff member on duty by first calling the UpDate Line at973-645-3657.
The current UpDate message will state whether pages are being returned
that day/evening by Alan Ables or another person covering for Public Affairs.
If paging numbers haven't been entered in your Rolodex, the recorded message
on 973-645-2888 provides paging numbers.
To page Alan Ables, dial 1-800-666-2532. When the operator answers, give the pin number 0133691 and dictate a message up to 55 characters.
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