"Facebook Brings Hellenes Together" Archbishop Appoints Greek Fire
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O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek Americans A WEEKLY GREEK AMERICAN PUBLICATION c v www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 10, ISSUE 520 September 29, 2007 $1.00 GREECE: 1.75 EURO U.S. Troops Jacksonville Priest is Must Come Accused of Pedophilia, Back Home Alleged Victim was 10 Eventually By Theodore Kalmoukos plaintiff $500 per week over a six Special to The National Herald year period; paying travel expenses, phone bills and tuition for the plain- 3 Greek American BOSTON, Mass. – The Very Rev. tiff; and inducing the plaintiff to Nicholas Graff, 50, who has served move into the defendant’s resi- Congressmen Offer as pastor at the Saint John the Di- dence. vine Church in Jacksonville, Florida According to the court docu- Their Views on Iraq for 17 years, has been accused for ments, “when Doe was 16 years old, pedophilia. Defendant Graff’s obsessive and in- By Evan C. Lambrou Father Graff, an archimandrite, appropriate behavior towards Special to The National Herald has already been suspended from Plaintiff Doe escalated into sexual all priestly duties and functions and misconduct. All instances of sexual NEW YORK – While expressing dif- was sent to the Spiritual Court, but misconduct by Defendant Graff ferent views on the subject, the Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta re- were unprovoked, without consent, three Greek American members of fused to reveal the Spiritual Court’s and were harmful and offensive to the House of Representatives all decision. Plaintiff Doe.” agree that American troops in Iraq According to the text of a lawsuit Father Graff was also accused of need to come back home. obtained by the National Herald, using “funds and accounts of the The two Democratic congress- Father Graff met a boy, labeled in Orthodox Church to purchase items men, John Sarbanes of Maryland the lawsuit as “John Doe,” some 12 and provide monetary inducement and Zack Space of Ohio, were criti- years ago. The boy was only ten to Plaintiff Doe,” and that “in the cal of President Bush’s plan to scale years of age at the time. summer of 2003, Defendant Graff United States forces back to pre- According to the lawsuit, the boy offered the boy’s mother three hun- surge levels, and argued that the “was born on September 18, 1985 dred thousand dollars ($300,000) course of discussion on Capitol Hill and first met Graff approximately in exchange to surrender parental needs to shift, but Republican Con- twelve years ago, and he was a rights to Plaintiff Doe.” gressman Gus Bilirakis of Florida parishioner at Defendant Orthodox The lawsuit also states that “in emphasized it was important that Church.” August 2005, Defendant Graff sexu- the withdrawal of American troops AP PHOTO/THANASSIS STAVRAKIS The lawsuit alleges that, when ally assaulted Plaintiff Doe” and from the beleaguered country be Parliament Sworn In the boy was teenager, Father Graff “sought to formally adopt Plaintiff conducted in a gradual manner. began exhibiting “undue, obsessive Doe,” but the mother refused. REP. SARBANES Greece's new parliament is sworn in, 10 days after the conservative party was returned to power for a sec- and inappropriate interest in him, The alleged perpetrator resigned “For starters, I’m extremely dis- ond four-year term with a much reduced majority, in Athens on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007. The including but not limited to, taking from the Jacksonville parish this appointed in the President’s will- Conservatives under Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis took 152 seats in the 300-strong, single-chamber the plaintiff to and from school past June. The National Herald cit- ingness to accept General Petraeus’ legislature after calling early elections for Sept. 16, a drop of 13 seats from the previous parliament. every day; purchasing an automo- ed the archimandrite’s case in the suppositions, the sum and sub- Support for Socialist PASOK also declined, while two small leftist parties, Communists and the Left bile for the plaintiff; purchasing stance of which is for the United Coalition, gained seats. A fifth party, the right-wing populist LAOS, takes up seats for the first time. clothing for the plaintiff; giving the Continued on page 3 States to continue to stay in Iraq if the situation doesn’t improve, which doesn’t seem unlikely” Rep. Sarbanes told the National Herald. “Before the Petraeus report, four brigades were supposed to come "Facebook Brings Hellenes Together" back home. Now they want us to stay until July 2008, but next July, By Mark Frangos com) is rapidly on its way to sur- essentially opened its doors to the we’re just going back to pre-surge Special to the National Herald passing them all. Founded in 2004 public, making it available to any levels, so we’re just returning to by Mark Zuckerberg a Harvard Col- email address. In the one year where we were before the surge in NEW YORK – The Internet has lege student Facebook’s member- since, Facebook increased its rank- the spring of 2007,” he said. made the world a smaller place and ship was initially restricted to stu- ing from 60 to 7th most visited web it is no different for Hellenes dents of Harvard College. Within site, and was the number one site Continued on page 3 around the world. Social network- two months it expanded to other for photos in the United States, ing websites such as MySpace, Boston area schools (Boston Col- ahead of public sites such as Flickr, Friendster and Hi5 have connected lege, Boston University, MIT, Tufts), with over 8.5 million photos up- more than half a billion users Rochester, Stanford, NYU, North- loaded daily. worldwide. Young people spend western, and all Ivy League schools Not ones to miss a cultural phe- countless hours chatting with their within two months. Many individ- nomena, Hellenes from around the Swindler is friends, sharing photos, playing ual universities were added in world quickly signed up and made games, meeting new people and rapid succession over the next year. their voices heard. Young Hellenes AP PHOTO/THANASSIS STAVRAKIS Arrested Once occasionally becoming romantical- Eventually, people with a university were pleased to find an easy way to Simply Magic ly involved with them and even be- (e.g .edu, .ac.uk, etc.) email ad- communicate and stay in touch coming active in a cause. dress from institutions across the with friends and family around the Basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson, left, with Greek Sports Again in Crete While MySpace, and to a lesser globe were eligible to join. Net- world, but Hellenes of the Diaspora Minister and former basketball coach Yannis Ioannidis before a extent Friendster and Hi5, have works were then initiated for high used Facebook to keep in touch charity basketball match in Athens, on September 26, 2007. John- ATHENS (AP) – A fugitive U.S. monopolized the social networking schools and some large companies. son was at the charity game featuring players from Greece's 1987 hedge fund manager, wanted in the news, Facebook (www.facebook. On September 11, 2006, Facebook Continued on page 5 European championship team. See related story on page 9. United States in relation to a multi- million-dollar fraud case, was ar- rested for a second time in a month in Greece, police officials said on Thursday, September 20, 2007. Angelo Haligiannis, formerly Archbishop Appoints Greek Fire Relief Committee Six Greek president of New York-based Ster- ling Watters Capital Advisors LLC, By Theodore Kalmoukos countless people homeless without ministrator of United States Agency news release announcing the for- Americans was initially detained on the island And Stavros Marmarinos any means of supporting them- for International Development mation of the Committee. of Crete last month but was re- selves for years to come. (presently a professor at George- Demetrios also appointed Bishop leased pending a U.S. extradition BOSTON – A special committee ap- The Special Committee consists town University), who has exten- Andonios of Phasiane coordinator Make the Cut request. pointed by Archbishop Demetrios of Michael Jaharis, vice chairman sive experience in coordinating of the work related to the Commit- Haligiannis pleaded guilty to of America will meet for the first of the Archdiocesan Council’s Exec- philanthropic assistance through- tee. one count of securities fraud in a time on October 24 to oversee and utive Committee; Georgia Skeadas, out the world for people in need. Bishop Andonios told the Na- For This Year’s U.S. federal court in September coordinate the distribution of all president of the National Philopto- “We are especially pleased that tional Herald, “Two million dollars 2005, admitting he had defrauded monies collected by the Archdio- chos Society; George Behrakis, Mr. Natsios, who has distinguished have been collected for the Relief investors by issuing "materially cese Greek Fire Relief Fund up to chairman of the Archbishop himself during his years in Wash- Fund thus far; $1 million from the Forbes 400 false and misleading statements" that time. Iakovos Leadership 100 Endow- ington, has accepted our invitation donation by Mr. Jaharis’ family; over the investment performance The Fund was established by the ment Fund; Dr. Anthony J. Limber- to serve as a member of this august $400 thousand from Nicholas By Evan C. Lambrou of his fund, according to the U.S. Archdiocese in response to last akis, national commander of the body. It is noteworthy to point out Bouras; and other contributions. Special to The National Herald Securities and Exchange Commis- month’s catastrophic fires, which Order of Saint Andrew; Peter Kikis, that he has tremendous experience We have also started to receive do- sion.