News published on Federal Newswire in December 2014

News from December 2014


News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.



News Release: National Park Service (NPS) Intermountain Regional Director Sue Masica announced Friday, Dec. 12, that two separate offerors were selected to receive concession contracts to provide guided backpacking services for youth within Grand Teton National Park. The two contracts were awarded to Wilderness Ventures, Inc. and The TVRC Education Foundation, doing business as Teton Valley Ranch Camp. Each contract will cover a term of ten years.


News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JAMES ROSEMOND, a/k/a “Jimmy the Henchman," was found guilty on December 11 of murder-for-hire, conspiracy to murder-for-hire, and firearms offenses for ordering the murder of Lowell Fletcher. The jury convicted ROSEMOND on all counts in the controlling indictment following a two-week re-trial before U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Staffred Kai Begay, 42, of Durango, Colo., pleaded guilty today to a federal child abuse charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.


News Release: BOSTON - A Boy Scout leader and YMCA employee was charged today with possessing child pornography.


News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Chad Allen Riffle, 22, of Citrus Springs, Florida, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiring to structure cash transactions, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.


News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Kirstie Elaine Philome Barratt, age 22, of Fort Mill, South Carolina was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment today after earlier pleading guilty to making a false statement to a federal agent, in violation of Title 18...


Eisenhower Home To Receive Facelift

News Release: The National Park Service is repainting the interior of the presidential home at Eisenhower National Historic Site beginning January 6. The project will repaint six rooms and all interior hallways of the 16-room house, including the living room, front hall master bedroom, general's room, sitting room and office.*.


Pimp Arrested By DPS In Wilbarger County Is Sentenced To 41 Months In Federal Prison For Transporting A Woman From Wyoming And Colorado To Texas To Engage In Prostitution

News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - A man who admitted transporting a woman from Wyoming and Colorado to Texas to engage in prostitution was sentenced this morning in federal court in Wichita Falls, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.


News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a New Iberia man was sentenced to 24 months in prison for lying in order to receive more than $350,0000 in Social Security Administration (SSA) benefits.


Martinsburg Man Convicted For Cocaine Trafficking

News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.


Northern California Attorney Sentenced For Attempted Tax Evasion

News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Orion Douglas Memmott, 75, formerly of Willows, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 18 months in prison for attempted tax evasion and subscribing to a false tax document, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.


News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced John David White, age 42, of Waldorf, Maryland today to 248 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin, possession and attempt to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin, maintaining a drug-involved premises and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.


Woman Pleads Guilty And Sentenced On Charge Of Illegal Re-Entry

News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Olivia Leigh Suriani, 30, a citizen of Canada, pleaded guilty to illegal re-entry into the United States after deportation before Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The defendant was then sentenced to time served by Judge Skretny.


News Release: Hudson County Gang Leader Pleads Guilty to Murder Conspiracy After Obtaining Approval from Gang’s National Leadership.


Bakersfield Man Pleads Guilty To Being A Felon In Possession Of A Firearm

News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Vincent Deleon, 33, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.


Two Convicted For Role In Manufacturing Methamphetamine

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News Release: U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch announced today that the Eastern District of New York, working collaboratively with other offices as well as on its own, collected over $5.3 billion in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2014. Of this total amount, $5,311,230,858.40 resulted from cases handled in...


Florida Man Pleads Guilty To Structuring More Than $2.5 Million In Proceeds Of Drug Trafficking

News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Chad Allen Riffle, 22, of Citrus Springs, Florida, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiring to structure cash transactions.