LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Astoria Financial Corporation , (the "Company"), the holding company for Astoria Federal Savings and Loan Association ("Astoria Federal"), the successor by merger in 1998 to Long Island Savings Bank, FSB ("LISB"), announced today that a three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit entered a decision in the case of The Long Island Savings Bank, FSB, and The Long Island Savings Bank of Centereach, FSB, v. United States, (2006-5029). The decision reverses the decisions of the United States Court of Federal Claims awarding Astoria Federal $435,755,000 in damages for breach of contract arising from the supervisory acquisition of Suffolk County Federal Savings and Loan Association ("Suffolk County Federal") by LISB in August 1983. The appellate court held that, due to the actions of the former chief executive officer of LISB at the time of the acquisition of Suffolk County Federal, any contract claims against the government were forfeited.
Commenting on the decision, Alan P. Eggleston, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Company and Astoria Federal stated, "We are obviously disappointed by the decision of the Court. We are currently reviewing the opinion and considering our alternatives."
Astoria Financial Corporation, the holding company for Astoria Federal Savings and Loan Association, with assets of $21.6 billion is the fifth largest thrift institution in the United States. Established in 1888, Astoria Federal is the largest thrift depository headquartered in New York with deposits of $13.2 billion and embraces its philosophy of Putting people first by providing the customers and local communities it serves with quality financial products and services through 86 convenient banking office locations and multiple delivery channels, including its enhanced website, http://www.astoriafederal.com/. Astoria Federal commands the fourth largest deposit market share in the attractive Long Island market, which includes Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties with a population exceeding that of 38 individual states. Astoria Federal originates mortgage loans through its banking offices and loan production offices in New York, an extensive broker network covering twenty-six states, primarily the East Coast, and the District of Columbia, and through correspondent relationships covering forty-three states and the District of Columbia.
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