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Chian Federation Honors Michael Psaros Proud Son of Chios for 1000 Issues Receives Homeric by Antonis H S O C V st ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E 101 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A wEEkly GREEk-AMERICAN PuBlICATION 1915-2016 VOL. 20, ISSUE 1000 December 10-16 , 2016 c v $1.50 1000 Thanks Chian Federation Honors Michael Psaros Proud Son of Chios for 1000 Issues Receives Homeric By Antonis H. Diamataris Award at Gala n the summer of 1997, while vacationing with my family, I made up my mind: I had to start an English language weekly TNH Staff Inewspaper. Yes, I concluded, our community had to have access to news ASTORIA – The Chian Federa - and information about the community itself and more broadly, tion honored Michael Psaros the Hellenic world. News that it would not find in the main - with the 37th Annual Homeric stream media. People were right to ask: if not you, then who? Award for his dedication to phil - I had agonized over this decision for a while because ten anthropy, Hellenism, and Ortho - years earlier I went through the painful process of winding doxy. down Greek Accent, an English language high-quality, glossy The award ceremony was magazine, that was started as a semimonthly. After a while, I held at the Hellenic Cultural made it monthly, and finally bimonthly, before I was forced to Center of the Chian Federation close it. in Astoria on Dec. 2. Psaros, an The truth is it was losing too much money and as a result it emerging leader in the Greek- started threatening the very existence of the daily Greek news - American community, is a co- paper – the Ethnikos Kyrix/National Herald – upon which it Founder and co-Managing Part - depended for its survival. ner of KPS Capital Partners, LP, It was a very good magazine and everyone seemed to love and a member of its Investment it, and thus it had attained a respectable circulation of approx - Committee. KPS is the manager imately 16,000. of KPS Special Situations Funds, However, the advertising was not there, that indispensable a family of private equity funds stream of revenue that supports the media. Our community with approximately $5.6 billion of assets under management, fo - Continued on page 9 cused on making controlling eq - uity investments in companies across a diverse range of manu - facturing industries. Psaros is a faithful Churchman, philan - Dr. Emmanuel Lambrakis thropist, a true Hellene, and a proud American. The Federation honored him Released on Bail with the Homeric Award because he is also a proud son of Chios. NEW YORK – Dr. Emmanuel U.S. Drug Enforcement Admin - Psaros told The National Herald Lambrakis “was released on a istration’s New York Division that “when I was called by the $500,000 personal recognizance (DEA), James P. O’Neill, the Chian Federation and asked to bond, secured by $20,000 cash Commissioner of the NYC Police participate in this ceremony, at or property. His next hearing is Department (NYPD), and Maria first I was hesitant because my scheduled for January 3,” accord - T. Vullo, Superintendent of the grandmother Eugenia from ing to Dawn Dearden Public Af - NYS Department of Financial Chios always told me to avoid fairs U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Services, announced the arrest. glory. I like to think that I am a Southern District of New York. Bharara said that “although humble person, but as it was ex - Also, “His travels are limited licensed as a doctor, as alleged, plained to me that the funds to South and Eastern District of Emmanuel Lambrakis was a pro - raised will go to worthy causes, New York, he had to surrender lific and dangerous drug dealer. I accepted this honor with great his travel documents (passport), He allegedly pumped medically humility and with enthusiasm.” he has an electronic monitor unnecessary oxycodone pills into Psaros is Treasurer of the Holy bracelet and he cannot write our communities, feeding the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of prescriptions for any control addiction of countless people. North America. He is an Archon, substances.” This arrest is a critical part of and a founding member of Dr. Lambrakis was arrested our overall fight against the dev - FAITH: An Endowment for Or - on December 1, 2016 for writ - astating opioid abuse epidemic.” thodoxy and Hellenism. Psaros ing “thousands of medical un - Hunt added that “drug deal - TNH/COSTAS BEJ serves on the Board of Trustees necessary prescriptions for oxy - ers selling scripts for money give Businessman and philanthropist Michael Psaros receives the Homeric Award with son Leo, wife done, totaling nearly 2.4 million doctors a bad name. The dis - Robin, and Chian Federation President John Kontolios on right. Continued on page 4 pills, over a five year period” ac - mantling of a modern day opium cording to the News Release is - den masquerading as a medical sued by the Office of Mr. Preet clinic in the heart of Queens Bharara, US Attorney for the shows the result of law enforce - southern District of New York. ment collaboration. The investi - SNFCC: The Success in Spite of Crisis Medical Preet Bharara, James J. Hunt, gation identified that Emmanuel Special Agent in Charge of the Lambrakis allegedly diverted oxycodone pills to New York City TNH Staff President of the foundation ber there was a dark night in Society’s 80th streets enabling the one thing named for his late uncle, the New York when I and several law enforcement, communities, ATHENS – The construction of Greek shipping tycoon, said, the colleagues had some internal and health professionals are try - the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Financial Times reported, questioning: ‘What are we do - Scholarship Asimina ing to avoid – opioid addiction Cultural Center (SNFCC) during “Greece won the European foot - ing? Greece is falling apart and and overdose deaths.” a time of financial crisis may ball championship in 2004, it we’re going to build an opera Vullo said that “New York is a have seemed an unusual way staged a successful Olympic house and a library?’ Then I said Gala Arvanitaki safer place because law enforce - for the Stavros Niarchos Foun - Games, the economy was doing we had to build it, this project ment authorities worked together dation (SNF) to spend €600 mil - well. We thought Greece had will bring hope, we can’t let the to shut down the criminal activi - lion, but the decision was made turned the corner. If anyone had Greeks down. And let’s do it all, By Eleni Sakellis Wins Physics ties this defendant pursued to en - in 2006 when Greece was riding suggested otherwise at that time not cut corners because of the rich himself while endangering a wave of prosperity. we’d have said ‘are you crazy?’” crisis.” NEW YORK – The Hellenic the public. The Department of Fi - Indeed, Greece was an exam - With the financial collapse of SNFCC, designed by world- Medical Society of New York Prize nancial Services appreciates the ple for the rest of Southeast Eu - 2010 and the bailouts that fol - renowned architect Renzo Piano, (HMSNY) held its Annual Schol - opportunity to have worked on rope with economic growth ac - lowed, others might have opened this year. The elegant arship Gala on Dec. 3, celebrat - this case with the office of U.S. celerating and a positive outlook balked at continuing the plans and dramatically situated com - ing its 80th Anniversary at the TNH Staff Attorney Bharara and the Drug for the future. At the time, the for construction, but SNF re - plex of glass and concrete houses JW Marriot Essex House on Enforcement Administration.” need for a new home for the mained steadfast in its dedica - the opera and library. Spectacu - Central Park South in Manhat - WATERLOO, CANADA – Dr. According to DOJ, 30-mil - Greek National Opera and the tion to Greece and its cultural lar views are afforded from the tan. Asimina Arvanitaki, the Stavros ligram oxycodone tablets have a National Library was an impor - institutions. The plans went upper floors of the Acropolis and The black tie event honored Niarchos Foundation (SNF) tant undertaking for SNF. ahead. some of the best and brightest Aristarchus Chair at the Perime - Continued on page 6 Andreas Dracopoulos, co- Dracopoulos said “I remem - Continued on page 6 in the medical field. The Distin - ter Institute, has won the pres - guished Physician award was tigious New Horizons in Physics presented to Dr. Constantine Prize, making her the fifth Stratakis, Scientific Director of Perimeter Institute faculty mem - the National Institute of Child ber to earn the award since its The 9th Century Greek Manuscript Returned Health and Human Develop - establishment in 2013. ment (NICHD) at the National Arvanitaki was recognized Institutes of Health (NIH). In his for her pioneering work that DRAMA, GREECE – His Emi - acceptance speech, the bridges theory and experiment nence Archbishop Demetrios, renowned endocrinologist and to forge novel ways of exploring Geron of America on December genetics expert thanked his wife particle physics. The New Hori - 3 returned the rare ninth cen - and children – his “most suc - zons in Physics Prize from the tury Greek manuscript of the cessful genetics experiment Breakthrough Foundation is a complete New Testament ever” – and noted his pride in $100,000 award that recognizes known as Codex 1424, to its his Greek heritage and culture exceptionally promising young rightful owners: the Holy Me - as well as his love for the United researchers, like Arvanitaki. tropolis of Drama and its Hier - States. Dr. Stratakis also praised “My field of research, involv - arch, His Eminence Metropoli - HMSNY for its continued com - ing small-scale particle physics tan Pavlos of Drama; and the mitment to education and the experiments, is a relatively new Monastery of Panagia Eikosi - Greek community, noting that one, so it is rewarding for it to foinissa from which the manu - the founders of the organization get this kind of recognition from script had been stolen by the in 1936 would have wanted it the physics community,” said Ar - Bulgarians in 1917.
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