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Jerry Sandusky
resentenced to
30 to 60 years
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — A
judge dashed the hopes of for-
mer Penn State assistant foot-
ball coach Jerry Sandusky
for a shorter prison term Fri-
day, resentencing him to the
same 30 to 60 years imposed
against him in 2012 for sexu-
ally abusing children.
Judge Maureen Skerda
gave Sandusky what pros-
ecutors and his own attor-
ney described as effectively
a life term during a hear-
ing ordered this year by an
appeals court.
Sandusky’s 2011 arrest
prompted the fi ring of Hall of
Fame head coach Joe Paterno
and the university has paid
more than $100 million to
people who said they had
been abused by Sandusky.
He was convicted of 45
counts of child sexual abuse
in 2012.
Sandusky, 75, in a mus-
tard yellow prison jumpsuit,
again asserted his innocence
Friday and choked up twice
during brief remarks in open
court before the sentence was
handed down.
“I apologize that I’m
unable to admit remorse for
this because it’s something
that I didn’t do,” Sandusky
told Skerda.
Sandusky told the judge
Friday about a recent phone
call with an unnamed woman
who formerly worked for The
Second Mile, a charity he
founded for at-risk youth that
he used to fi nd and groom
child victims.
Sandusky said the woman
ended the phone call by tell-
ing him she loves him.
2 arrested for
separate threats at
LA-area schools
LOS ANGELES — Dep-
uties arrested a 13-year-old
boy and seized a semi-auto-
matic rifl e after he threatened
to shoot other students and
staff at a Los Angeles-area
middle school, authorities
said Friday.
In a separate case, a boy at
another school was taken into
custody involving a planned
shooting.
The arrests came barely
a week after deputies were
frantically summoned to a
high school in Santa Clar-
ita, where a 16-year-old boy
killed two fellow students and
took his own life.
Since then, the Los Ange-
les County Sheriff’s Depart-
ment has investigated at least
30 school threats, spokesman
Sgt. Bob Boese said.
The incidents that resulted
in the arrests were the only
ones deemed credible.
At Animo Mae Jemison
Charter Middle School in
Willowbrook, just south of
downtown Los Angeles, mul-
tiple students overheard the
13-year-old say Thursday that
he would carry out the shoot-
ing on campus the following
day, Sheriff Alex Villanueva
said.
The students alerted teach-
ers and police were notifi ed.
Ex-CIA offi cer gets
19 years in China
spy conspiracy
ALEXANDRIA, Va. —
A former CIA case agent has
been sentenced to 19 years in
prison for an espionage con-
spiracy with China.
Fifty-fi ve-year-old Jerry
Chun Shing Lee was sen-
tenced Friday in federal court
in Alexandria after his guilty
plea earlier this year.
He pleaded guilty to con-
spiracy to commit espionage,
but prosecutors and defense
lawyers disagreed about the
extent of the crime.
Prosecutors say Chinese
intelligence offi cers gave Lee
more than $840,000 and that
Lee likely gave them all the
information he had from a
13-year career as a CIA case
offi cer. They sought a prison
term of more than 20 years.
Defense lawyers say the
government never proved
that the money came from
China or that Lee ever car-
ried out any plans to deliver
government secrets. They
asked for a 10-year sentence.
— Associated Press
Saturday, November 23, 2019
AG unveils plan on missing Native Americans
By MICHAEL
BALSAMO AND
FELICIA FONSECA
Associated Press
PABLO, Mont. —
Attorney General Wil-
liam Barr announced a
nationwide plan Friday to
address the crisis of miss-
ing and slain Native Amer-
ican women as concerns
mount over the level of vio-
lence they face.
Barr announced the
plan, known as the Missing
and Murdered Indigenous
Persons Initiative, during a
visit with tribal leaders and
law enforcement offi cials
on the Flathead Reserva-
tion in Montana.
Native
American
women experience some
of the nation’s highest rates
of murder, sexual violence
and domestic abuse. The
National Institute of Justice
estimates that 1.5 million
Native American women
have experienced violence
in their lifetime, including
many who are victims of
sexual violence. On some
reservations, federal stud-
ies have shown women are
AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
Attorney General William Barr, center, shakes hands with
Vernon Finley, left, and Tony Incashola, right, after they
presented him with a blanket during a Confederated Salish
and Kootenai Tribes council meeting on Friday on the Flat-
head Reservation in Pablo, Mont.
killed at a rate more than 10
times the national average.
The Justice Depart-
ment’s new initiative
would invest $1.5 million
to hire specialized coordi-
nators in 11 U.S. attorney’s
offi ces across the U.S. with
signifi cant Indian Country
caseloads. The coordina-
tors would be responsible
for developing protocols
for a better law enforce-
ment response to missing
persons cases.
Montana’s coordinator,
a former FBI agent, already
has started in his position.
Tribal or local law
enforcement
offi cials
would also be able to call
on the FBI for additional
help in some missing
indigenous persons cases.
The FBI could then deploy
some of its specialized
teams, including investi-
gators who focus on child
abduction or evidence col-
lection and special agents
who can help do a quick
analysis of digital evi-
dence and social media
accounts.
The Justice Department
also committed to conduct-
ing an in-depth analysis of
federal databases and its
data collection practices to
determine if there are ways
to improve the gathering
of information in missing
persons cases.
“This is not a panacea,”
Barr told tribal council
members of the Salish and
Kootenai
Confederated
Tribes at an event where
members presented him
with a blue blanket before
a traditional musical per-
formance. “This is a step in
the right direction, but we
have a lot more work to do
working together.”
Barr said he spoke to
President Donald Trump
about the initiative, which
calls for some of the same
things already in legisla-
tion pending in Congress.
He also spoke to tribal
leaders about how a surge
in methamphetamine use
may be infl uencing vio-
lence in Indian Country.
Busy December ahead for impeachment process
By MARY CLARE
JALONICK
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
—
After two weeks of public
hearings, Democrats could
soon turn the impeach-
ment process over to the
House Judiciary Commit-
tee. They’re moving “expe-
ditiously” ahead as House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has
instructed.
At some point in the com-
ing weeks, the House intel-
ligence panel will submit a
report to the Judiciary panel,
and then Democrats will
consider drafting articles
of impeachment on Presi-
dent Donald Trump’s deal-
ings with Ukraine and the
administration’s attempts to
block the investigation. The
articles could cover matters
beyond Trump’s efforts to
push Ukraine to investigate
Democrats, including spe-
cial counsel Robert Muel-
ler’s investigation, but no
decisions have been made.
There could be several
steps along the way, includ-
ing a Judiciary committee
vote, a House fl oor vote and,
fi nally, a Senate trial.
What’s
next
in
impeachment:
Democrats on the House
intelligence
committee
believe they have enough
evidence to write a report
and move forward. But it’s
still unclear whether they
will hear any last-minute
testimony.
Several
potentially
key witnesses — former
National Security Adviser
John Bolton, acting White
House Chief of Staff Mick
Mulvaney, Energy Secre-
tary Rick Perry and Secre-
tary of State Mike Pompeo,
among others — have so
far declined to provide tes-
timony or documents on
Trump’s orders.
Democrats have said they
don’t want to get tied up in
lengthy court battles to force
those witnesses to cooperate
with subpoenas. But they
could still hear testimony if
one of them changed their
mind, or if other key wit-
nesses emerged.
“We’ve heard and seen
compelling evidence that
the president committed
serious wrongdoing,” says
Texas Rep. Joaquin Cas-
tro, a member of the intel-
ligence panel. “There are
other witnesses, including
some principal witnesses
that we would have liked
to have heard from, but the
evidence has been pretty
damning that the president
committed an impeachable
act.”
Time is running short
if the House is to vote on
impeachment by Christmas,
which Democrats privately
say is the goal. The intel-
ligence panel is expected
to spend the Thanksgiving
week writing, and maybe
even completing, a report of
evidence gathered through
more than six weeks of
closed-door depositions and
public hearings.
Once the report is done,
the panel could vote to pass
it on to the House Judiciary
Committee. That could
happen as soon as the fi rst
week of December, when
lawmakers return from the
Thanksgiving break.
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