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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
CENTRAL ISLIP, NY – On December 18, Judge Leonard D. Wexler today, at the Federal District Court in Central Islip, NY sentenced Chris Orsaris to 85 months imprisonment.
Orsaris, the former general manager of Major Automotive Companies, Inc, in Queens, New York was arrested in April 2010 for fraud in connection with an insurance claim on a $850,000 boat and embezzlement from Major. He pled guilty December 2012 to laundering money from a series of schemes designed to take money from Major and avoid paying taxes.
The Court found the defendant, together with others, had taken and laundered over $15 million dollars to support his extravagant lifestyle and sentenced him to 85 months imprisonment, 3 years supervised release.
The defendant was ordered to forfeit the proceeds from his apartment at Trump World Tower, the proceeds of his condominium in Miami, Florida, and his interest in Major Ford, as well as additional bank accounts and an additional $750,000. He was also ordered to pay $13, 831,288 to Major Automotive Companies, Inc., $506,124.25 to the Insurance company for the false insurance claim concerning his boat and $2.7 million to the Internal Revenue Service.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.