Astoria Financial Corporation Holds Annual Shareholders Meeting
May 21 2008 - 11:52AM
PR Newswire (US)
Four Directors Re-Elected and the Appointment of Independent
Registered Public Accounting Firm Ratified LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., May
21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Astoria Financial Corporation
(NYSE:AF) (the "Company") announced that at its annual meeting held
today its shareholders voted overwhelmingly to re-elect directors
George L. Engelke, Jr., Peter C. Haeffner, Jr., and Ralph F.
Palleschi each for a three year term, and director Leo J. Waters
for a two year term. It further announced that shareholders
ratified the appointment of KPMG LLP as its independent registered
public accounting firm for the 2008 fiscal year. Astoria Financial
Corporation, with assets of $21.5 billion, is the holding company
for Astoria Federal Savings and Loan Association. Established in
1888, Astoria Federal, with deposits in New York totaling $13.0
billion, is the largest thrift depository headquartered in New York
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 and loan production offices in New York, an extensive
broker network covering twenty-two states, primarily the East
Coast, and the District of Columbia, and through correspondent
relationships covering twenty-nine states and the District of
Columbia. DATASOURCE: Astoria Financial Corporation CONTACT: Peter
J. Cunningham, First Vice President, Investor Relations,
+1-516-327-7877, Web site: http://ir.astoriafederal.com/
http://www.astoriafederal.com/ Company News On-Call:
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