WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: NEW YORK, N.Y. --U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and U. S. Secret Service agents are protecting your currency's integrity ahead of the upcoming holiday shopping season. On November 18, CBP officers seized a total of $304,500 in counterfeit United States currency, from a 26-year-old male arriving from Guayaquil, Ecuador. The USSS was notified and re  more

UPTON, New York, Dec. 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Particles streaming from collisions offer insight into dynamic interactions and collective behavior of quarks and gluons * * * Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have a new way to use data from high-energy particle smashups to peer inside protons. Their approach uses quantum information scie  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- The Federal Home Loan Bank System's Office of Finance issued the following news release on Dec. 2, 2024: * * * Board Appoints Successor * * * The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLBank) of New York announced today that Jose R. Gonzalez, President and Chief Executive Officer, will retire on April 4, 2025. Randolph C. Snook, Chief Executive Officer of the FHLBanks Office of Finance, has been named as his successor, effective February 3, 2025, at which time Mr. Gonzalez will beco  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Dec. 2, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael Khoo, the Co-Director of Task Force KleptoCapture, 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 filing of a civil forfeiture Complaint against over $3.4 million  more

ALBANY, New York, Dec. 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release: Omjasisa Kentu Felder, age 53, of Troy, New York, has been charged with marijuana trafficking and gun crimes. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman; Bryan Miller, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF); Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Admini  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- The Federal Home Loan Bank System's Office of Finance issued the following news release on Dec. 2, 2024: The Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks) Office of Finance (OF) announced today that Randy Snook, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), will depart to become President and CEO of the FHLBank of New York, effective February 3, 2025. The OF Board of Directors (Board) has named John Gerli, Chief Capital Markets Officer, as interim CEO, effective upon Mr. Snook's departure, and will  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 3 -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, a district bank in the Federal Home Loan Bank System, issued the following news release on Dec. 2, 2024: * * * Board Appoints Randolph C. Snook as Successor -- Jose R. Gonzalez to retire on April 4, 2025 after more than a decade leading the FHLBNY -- * * * The Federal Home Loan Bank of New York ("FHLBNY") announced today that Jose R. Gonzalez, president and Chief Executive Officer of the FHLBNY, will retire from the FHLBNY on Apri  more