General News
Greek-American James A. Koshivos, 21, Killed after Car Plunged into Ocean
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
MINEOLA, N.Y. – James Kalpakis, 53, pleaded guilty in September 2013 to Grand Larceny in the First Degree (a B felony) and Grand Larceny in the Second Degree (a C felony). Nassau County Court Judge Philip Grella sentenced Kalpakis on January 23 to 3-1/3 to 10 years in prison, with restitution of $4,362,279.83.
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced that the disbarred attorney has been sentenced for stealing more than $4 million from several individuals and banks in a series of fraudulent real estate deals that fattened his wallet at the expense of his clients – including his own wife.
DA Rice said, “Clients should be confident that their attorneys are representing their best interests, and not betraying their trust for their own financial gain…My office will continue to prosecute attorneys who betray their clients’ trust while reaping millions of dollars by flouting the laws they swore to follow.”
She said that Kalpakis, an attorney who was suspended from the practice of law in 2005 and disbarred upon his resignation in September 2009, stole over $4 million from five clients he represented in real estate deals between September 2008 and January 2011.
In September 2008, Kalpakis illegally obtained a 30-year, $1.1 million mortgage loan from a bank to refinance a mortgage on a home owned by his wife by submitting a forged power of attorney in her name, giving him authority to sign the mortgage in her absence. He received a check made payable to him in the amount of $402,152 at closing. The balance of the loan was used to pay off the existing mortgage, but Kalpakis stopped making payments on the loan in December 2009. His wife knew nothing about the loan.
Kalpakis fraudulent dealings by include:
Kalpakis is represented by James Toner and Assistant District Attorney Peter J. Mancuso of DA Rice’s Government & Consumer Frauds Bureau is prosecuting the case.
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
ATHENS — After several years of strained relations that raised tensions to alarming levels, longtime regional rivals Greece and Turkey made a significant step Thursday in mending ties during a visit to Athens by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
NEW YORK – Just in time for the holidays, Cerebral Palsy Greece/Open Door and Porta: Open Door-USA are staging a silent auction of vacation time in select houses throughout Greece for the 2024 travel season.
ΝΙΨΟΣΙΑ - Turkish-Cypriot hardline nationalist leader Ersin Tatar has one word of advice for European Union leaders who hope the island divided by unlawful 1974 Turkish invasions will ever come together again.
ATHENS - A former deputy prime minister for Greece’s major opposition SYRIZA has joined the ranks of defectors leaving the party’s central committee in disaffection with new leader Stefanos Kasselakis.
TIRANA - Defying Greece and the European Union, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said the prosecution of a detained ethnic Greek Mayor-elect of the seaside town of Himare will go on even though it’s blocking his country’s European Union hopes.