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 PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-New York, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) released the following statement: "I was honored to join the bipartisan Congressional delegation to Barbados over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. As a daughter to Jamaican immigrants and representative of a large Caribbean-American population within my district, I am committed to fostering and enhancing the vital economic partnership between the United States more PR

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 PR

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 PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued the following recall alert: Dec. 2, 2024 The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for frozen ready-to-eat pork mortadella products that may have been illegally imported from Ecuador, a country ineligible to export meat and poultry products to the United States. FSIS is continuing to investigate the origins of this product, an more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand released the following statement on the confirmation of Omer Neutra's death on October 7th: "Today, New York mourns the loss of one of our own. The grandson of Holocaust survivors, Omer Neutra was a Long Island native who loved the New York Knicks. He loved Israel and felt a duty to serve, deferring his acceptance to Binghamton University to spend a gap year in Israel b more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-New York, issued the following news release: Press Republican: In my Opinion: Stefanik right choice for UN By John J. Metzler Showdowns loom in the new year as New York Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has been nominated to serve as United Nations Ambassador by the President-elect Donald Trump. Should she be approved by the Senate, Rep. Stefanik who has served in the U.S. Congress for a decade representing upstate New York's 21st Congressio more PR

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (16th Air Force) issued the following news: Army Col. Freddy Adams' presidential nomination for promotion to brigadier general was confirmed Nov. 21 by congressional vote. Adams is headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, currently serving as the commander of the Mission and Installation Contracting Command, a one-star subordinate command of the Army Contracting Command. A nati more PR

ALBANY, New York, Dec. 3 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release on Dec. 2, 2024: * * * SmileDirectClub Continued to Charge Tens of Thousands of Consumers Monthly Payments after Filing for Bankruptcy and Abruptly Shutting Down More Than 28,000 Consumers Nationwide to be Refunded * * * NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Letitia James today recovered $4.8 million for more than 28,000 consumers, including 2,265 New Yorkers, who were improperly charged by  more PR

ALBANY, New York, Dec. 3 (TNSres) -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release on Dec. 2, 2024: * * * New Report Shows Charitable Giving Campaigns Raised Nearly $1.5 Billion in 2023, An Increase of $5.8 Million from 2022 Professional Fundraisers Retained 17 Percent of All Charitable Campaign Donations, Down From 23 Percent in 2022 * * * NEW YORK - In advance of Giving Tuesday and the holiday season, New York Attorney General Letitia James today released her a more PR

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 PR

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 PR

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 PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- Rep. Marc Molinaro, R-New York, issued the following news release: Binghamton, NY U.S. Rep Marc Molinaro (NY-19) released the following statement on the murder of BU student and American-Israeli hostage Omer Neutra. "The murder of BU student Omer Neutra is heartbreaking and infuriating. We are not done fighting for the memory of Omer, to bring the hostages home, and to make the Hamas terrorists pay for their crimes. We extend our love and prayers to Omer's parents who be more PR

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 PR