Retired Albany FBI agent recalls career, urges women to join the bureau
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Retired FBI Special Agent Joanne Q. Sills retired last June after spending 29 years in the FBI, all in Albany. Sills, who was involved in several high-profile cases, encourages women to consider joining the bureau as agents.courtesy Joanne Q. SillsShow MoreShow Less
2of9Photo from video: Wanda Kaczynski and her son David Kaczynski as they leave Wanda Kaczynski s Glenville apartment early on April 4,1996. They are the mother and brother of Theodore Kaczynski. (WRGB video)WRGB VIDEOShow MoreShow Less
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4of9 Winter, by artist Gari Melchers, is displayed during an FBI press conference where it was announced that the artwork, which was taken by Nazis in 1933, would be returned to its rightful owners on Thursday Oct. 15, 2020, in Albany, N.Y. The FBI recently seized the painting from an art museum in Canajoharie, part of an international effort to recover artwork taken by the Nazis
Feb 24, 2021 Winter by Gari Melchers courtesy of Gari Melchers Home and Studio
In 1900, Rudolph Mosse purchased the painting, Winter by Gari Melchers at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. Mosse was a prominent publisher and philanthropist in Germany building an empire that made his family one of the wealthiest in Berlin.
When Rudolph died in 1920, his sole heir was his daughter Felicia Lachmann-Mosse and her husband Hans Lachmann-Mosse became the publisher of the company s flagship newspaper, the
Berliner Tageblatt. The newspaper was an outspoken critic of the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler, which made the Lachmann-Mosse family a symbol of the Jewish press. In 1933, three months after Hitler s rise to power, Hans-Lachmann Mosse and many of the company s leading Jewish staff members were forced to flee the country. The Nazi regime took control of the family property, including the Rudolph Mosse Company, the