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Trump Adviser Papadopoulos Tied to Russia Probe S O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ nd W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald 10 2 N anniversa ry www.thenationalherald.com A wEEkly GrEEk-AmEriCAN PuBliCATiON 1915-2017 VOL. 20, ISSUE 1036 August 19-25, 2017 c v $1.50 Menounos Trump Adviser Papadopoulos Tied to Russia Probe Back to Greek-American sent emails, planned Work after meetings with Russian officials, Putin TNH Staff cerns, including a possible viola - Brain Tumor tion of U.S. sanctions against George Papadopoulos, an en - Russia and of the Logan Act, ergy consultant who was an ad - which prohibits U.S. citizens TV personality viser to Donald Trump’s presi - from unauthorized negotiation dential campaign in 2016, has with foreign governments. will help raise funds emerged as a figure tied to the Papadopoulos didn’t give up. ongoing probe into Russian con - Between March, 2016, when he for cancer research nections after emails showed he sent the email, and September, offered to set up a meeting with he sent at least a half dozen TNH Staff Russian officials, including Pres - more requests for Trump or ident Vladimir Putin. members of his team to meet NEW YORK – Maria Menounos The Washington Post said the with Russian officials, an en - is back to work, this time to help little-known Papadopoulos who, treaty said to be rejected by then- raise funds for the battle against despite having little experience Campaign Manager Paul Man - brain cancer. The 39-year-old was named a foreign policy ad - afort, who has since turned out TV personality recently revealed viser later to Trump, sent the to be tied to Russian interests. her own health struggle, under - campaign foreign policy team Papadopoulos appeared out going brain surgery in June to an email three days after he was of nowhere during the campaign remove a cancerous tumor, and appointed that said: “Meeting and said he graduated from De - her mother Litsa’s continue bat - with Russian Leadership – In - Paul University in 2009 with a tle against Stage 4 brain cancer. cluding Putin.” Bachelor’s Degree in Political Sci - Menounos will host the An - Papadopoulos offered to set ence and Government and that gel Ball to raise funds for the up “a meeting between us and he earned master’s degrees from battle against the terrible dis - the Russian leadership to dis - University College London and ease, as reported in the New cuss U.S.-Russia ties under Pres - the London School of Economics. York Daily News. ident Trump,” telling them his After graduating, he said he She will speak at Gabrielle's Russian contacts welcomed the worked from 2011 to 2015 as a Angel Foundation for Cancer opportunity, according to inter - research associate at the Hudson Research's Angel Ball to be held nal campaign emails read to the Institute, a DC-based think tank. on October 23 at New York’s newspaper. The Post said it was unclear Cipriani Wall Street. That set off alarm bells in whether he was acting as an in - Songwriter and philan - Trump campaign headquarters termediary for the Russian gov - thropist Denise Rich founded in Trump Tower in New York ernment as he didn’t claim to Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for City despite later revelations have any ties to Moscow, but he Cancer after her 27-year-old that high-ranking officials were told campaign officials he was a daughter, Gabrielle Rich Aouad, trying to do almost the same, go-between who could broker a lost her battle with Hodgkin’s which has led to the probe by meeting without offering any ev - lymphoma in 1996, as noted on former FBI Director Robert idence. the foundation’s website. Mueller. Three months after Pa - So far $30 million has been Campaign co-chairman Sam padopoulos raised the possibility raised for cancer research by the Clovis wrote that he thought of a meeting between Trump and foundation. Menounos’ partici - NATO allies should be consulted Russian President Vladimir pation will undoubtedly help in - before any plans were made, the Putin, the president’s son Donald crease that amount. paper said and another key ad - Trump Jr. and son-in-law, Jared This year’s Angel Ball will TNH/COSTAS BEJ viser, retired Navy Rear Adm. honor producer and humanitar - The Archieratic Divine Liturgy presided over by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios on the Charles Kubic, cited legal con - Continued on page 2 ian Nikki Cole and Rally Health Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos at the Kimisis tis Theotokou Church in the Hamptons. CEO Grant Verstandig. The chairwomen for the gala include Lorraine Schwartz, Ofira Sand - berg, and Michele Rella. Feast of Dormition, Kimisis tis Theotokou Celebrated Greek- Maria Menounos plans on sharing her own story this year, and her presence at the gala By Eleni Sakellis monastery complex is built grimage in Greece, equal to vices every August 15th. One is Owned highlights her courage in deal - around a miraculous icon which Lourdes in France or Fatima in celebrated at Panagia Spiliani ing with cancer. She is also re - NEW YORK – The Kimisis tis according to tradition was Portugal. and it is the official Divine defining her personal priorities, Theotokou or the Dormition of found after the Virgin appeared In Northern Greece, the Liturgy of the priests, who lead Business posting on Instagram just a few the Theotokos on August 15, is to the nun Pelagia and revealed Church of Panagia Soumela on the procession of the icon of the also known as the Pascha of to her the place where the icon the slopes of Vermio, near the Virgin Mary up to the village to Continued on page 2 Summer, celebrates the Assump - was buried. The icon is widely village of Kastania was built in bless the feast, while the second Robbed tion of the Virgin Mary, when believed to be the source of nu - 1951 by the refugees of Pontus, is a traditional ritual performed the Holy Mother of Jesus Christ merous miracles. in memory of the historic by the black-clad Enniameri - By Demetris Tsakas and therefore, the Mother of all The icon was found in the homonymous monastery, the ru - tisses as the women who have Christians, ascended into early days of the modern Greek ins of which lie on Mount Mela, been dedicated to the Theotokos ASTORIA – Two young men of Dr. Kardaras Heaven. State and was declared the pa - near Trebizond in Pontus. The are called. average height on Friday The greatest pilgrimage is tron saint of the Greek nation. miraculous icon of the Virgin The feast of the Virgin Mary evening, July 28, entered a held on the island of Tinos, at The church, built in the Renais - Mary, the Holy Cross, and the on the island of Pserimo where Greek-owned business in Asto - on the the preeminent Marian shrine sance style, was inaugurated in Gospel are kept at the church. the Church of Virgin Mary of the ria, grabbed two backpacks that in Greece, the Church of Evan - 1830 and since then is a popular On Nisyros, they celebrate contained computers and check - gelistria. The church and destination for Christian pil - not with one, but with two ser - Continued on page 3 books, and then disappeared. Opioid Crisis The robbery, as reported in the police report, was commit - ted at 9:25 pm in a business lo - By Eleni Sakellis cated at 37-01 30th Avenue in Gr. Restaurant the Greek enclave of Astoria. NEW YORK – During a recent The security cameras recorded press conference, President images of the robbers. Trump declared the country’s Sold Winning So far, the police investiga - opioid crisis a “national emer - tion has not led to any arrests gency” and promised to spend and the police decided to re - a lot of “time, a lot of effort, and Lottery Ticket lease the video in a timely man - a lot of money” on the problem. ner and asked the public for The United States has an esti - help to identify the perpetrators mated 2.6 million opioid addicts TNH Staff of the crime. and drug overdoses (of all The National Herald con - types) kill more people than car PALOS HEIGHTS, IL – The Illi - tacted the manager on the crashes and gun homicides com - nois Lottery states that a subur - morning shift at the business, bined; over 140 people a day ban Chicago barbecue restau - but he declined to comment on and over 52,000 people died of rant sold the winning ticket for the event or the ongoing inves - overdoses in 2015—and on the $393 million Mega Millions tigation. pace for 60,000 this year. By lottery jackpot, the Associated Recently, three more rob - comparison, 58,000 American Press reported. On August 12, beries have occurred in Astoria troops died during the entire 10 the Illinois Lottery added that and the police requested the years of the Vietnam War. someone bought the ticket at public’s help in tracking down There are also more pain Nick’s Barbecue in Palos the perpetrators. meds flooding medicine cabi - Heights. Restaurant owner Nick Astoria's Greek-American nets across the country. Accord - Andricopulos will receive a City Council Member Costa ing to the National Institute of $500,000 bonus for selling the Constantinides, responding to Drug Abuse (NIDA), in 1990 ticket. Andricopulos, 60, said he TNH’s question about these rob - there were 75 million opiate learned the news from one of beries, explained that “these are pain med prescriptions written his employees on August 11, the isolated incidents” and that “the Chicago Tribune reported.
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