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Community Dismayed by Narrow Genocide Vote
  • Eleni Kostopoulos
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  • March 12, 2010
NEW YORK – Greek American and Armenian members of the District 13 community in New York City have expressed indignation regarding the vote cast by U.S. Representative Michael McMahon (D-NY) opposing t...
Giannoulias shifts focus from family bank to his record
  • Abdon M. Pallasch - Chicago Sun-Times
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  • March 12, 2010
Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Alexi Giannoulias tried today to change the focus of his campaign from talk about his family’s troubled bank to what he says is his history of standing up to big banks a...
Giannoulias donor caught running for the border
  • Steve Miller
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  • March 12, 2010
CHICAGO (WBBM) -- The U.S. Senate campaign of Democrat Alexi Giannoulias says it's giving about $115,000 to charities. That's everything Giannoulias has received from the co-owner of Boston Blackie...
Geithner: Greece Did Not Ask For Financial Assistance
  • Michael R. Crittenden
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  • March 11, 2010
(Dow Jones)- Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou did not ask the Obama administration for financial aid during a visit Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner stressed during an appearance on ...
Alexi to Meet With Axelrod
  • Mary Ann Ahern - NBC Chicago
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  • March 09, 2010
Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias will meet with White House advisor David Axelrod Tuesday at the White House, according to a Giannoulias spokesperson. Giannoulias will be a guest at th...
Giannoulias, Family Could Get Millions from Bank Collapse
  • NBC Chicago
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  • March 06, 2010
Alexi Giannoulias and his family could see a more than $10 million windfall if Broadway Bank fails. Th U.S. Senate candidate, his mother and two brothers are eligible to receive between $12 milli...
Giannoulias fails to end bank controversy
  • John Kass - Chicago Tribune
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  • March 04, 2010
Moments after Alexi Giannoulias endured one of his Wednesday media grillings about his family's troubled Broadway Bank — this one at the Tribune — we stood out on Michigan Avenue. I asked him how h...
Kirk targets Giannoulias family bank loans
  • Rick Pearson - Chicago Tribune
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  • March 02, 2010
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk said Monday the fate of his Democratic rival's family bank should be an issue of concern for voters. "I think there's no question that Alexi Giannoulias b...
Maloney wants House to probe Greek debt default
  • Silla Brush - The Hill
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  • February 27, 2010
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) is calling on House lawmakers to investigate financial firms for making bets about a default by Greece on its debt. In a letter to House Financial Services Committee C...
Giannoulias leads Kirk in poll
  • Abdon M. Pallasch - Chicago Sun-Times
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  • February 26, 2010
Democrat Alexi Giannoulias leads Republican Mark Kirk by seven points in a poll released Thursday by the liberal DailyKos Web site. Giannoulias drew support from 43 percent of the 600 Illinois vote...
Actually, Giannoulias has answered some bank questions
  • Abdon M. Pallasch - Chicago Sun-Times
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  • February 22, 2010
Illinois' Republican Party is keeping up a steady drumbeat of pressure on Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias to answer questions about his family's Broadway Bank. "Why is Alexi hiding...
Greek Americans wants US ambassador in Turkey recalled
  • Cyprus Mail
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  • February 19, 2010
The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) has asked Washington to recall its ambassador to Turkey after he described Turkey as a country that “does not invade its neighbors”, and as being closer to the EU...
Giannoulias poll gives him 49-45 percent lead over Mark Kirk
  • Will Brown - MSNBC
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  • February 18, 2010
In a conference call with reporters this afternoon, Alexi Giannoulias’ strategists touted new poll numbers that showed Ginnoulias leading Illlinois Congressman Mark Kirk in the race to fill President ...
Giannoulias' Campaign Chair Durbin on Bank Controversy
  • Marla Cichowski - Fox News
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  • February 11, 2010
llinois' Senior Senator, Dick Durbin, said he believes Alexi Giannoulias, 33, who is running as the Democratic candidate for US Senate will have to come clean about the latest controversy surrounding ...
Three Greek Americans among New York's top campaign contributors
  • Raymond Hernandez - The New York Times
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  • February 11, 2010
An analysis of campaign finance records shows that the top 10 individual donors to House and Senate members from New York include some of the nation’s leading figures in real estate, energy, finance a...
Illinois Democrats no cure for what ails Obama
  • February 08, 2010
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Still reeling from the loss of the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat to Republicans in Massachusetts, Barack Obama's Democrats now face the prospect of losing the president's old S...
Durbin to chair Giannoulias Senate campaign
  • Karen Hawkins - The Associated Press
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  • February 08, 2010
CHICAGO - U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said Sunday he'll chair the Senate campaign of fellow Democrat Alexi Giannoulias as he takes on a better-funded and more experienced Republican foe. Durbin and Giann...
Can Republicans capitalize on Democrats’ worries?
  • James Warren - New York Times
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  • February 05, 2010
Votes in the Illinois primary elections on Tuesday were being counted just as ABC started the final season of “Lost.” The state’s Republican Party, marooned on an island of ineptitude, could now be li...
Giannoulias vs. Kirk: Let the games begin
  • John Chase - Chicago Tribune
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  • February 04, 2010
With the battle for President Barack Obama's former U.S. Senate seat just hours old, Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk wasted little time slamming each other and setting a tone for t...
Illinois Senate Race Worries Democrats Anew
  • Monica Davey - The New York Times
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  • February 04, 2010
CHICAGO — Alexi Giannoulias, the treasurer of Illinois and a basketball-playing friend of President Obama’s, won the Democratic primary here on Tuesday for the Senate seat once held by Mr. Obama. But ...
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