Leaders at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church cite financial discrepancies The Milwaukee County district attorney’s office has been asked to investigate possible theft from the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church by a former priest. Assistant District Attorney David Feiss confirmed Monday that he was reviewing documents sent to the office by Annunciation’s Parish Council. Feiss declined to […]

The former priest at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Wauwatosa who is accused of misappropriating more than $100,000 from a trust he managed there is in the process of being charged with theft, the Milwaukee County district attorney’s office said Monday. Father James Dokos has been named in a charging document that has been provided […]

MILWAUKEE —A former Milwaukee priest was suddenly removed from his position at a suburban Chicago church over the weekend. Father James Dokos was a trusted leader and pastor for years at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church until 2012, when he transferred to Glenview, Ill. Then questions began surfacing about some lavish spending of church money. […]

A Greek Orthodox priest accused of improperly spending more than $110,000 from a private trust for shopping trips and upscale dinners has been placed on unpaid administrative leave and suspended from his duties as parish priest at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Glenview, according to church authorities. The Rev. James Dokos is accused of […]

The Rev. James Dokos, leader of Glenview’s Saints Peter and Paul Greek Orthodox Church, will be charged with felony theft in the alleged mishandling of a trust fund at a Milwaukee church, said David Feiss, assistant district attorney for Milwaukee County. Authorities have concluded a months-long investigation and will file a charge against Dokos of […]

A 30-year-old priest was arrested in Thessaloniki Monday for defrauding at least 166 jobseekers whom he had promised work across Europe via a bogus recruitment agency. The priest is thought to be the leader of a group of criminals who swindled more than 78,000 euros out of unsuspecting victims by persuading them to deposit money […]

HOUSTON—The meeting that started the trouble took place at a monastery in Florence, Ariz. Under a gazebo’s shade, a Ukrainian physicist who aspires to be a monk met with a Milwaukee lawyer seven years ago and began planning a firm whose profits from rapid-fire stock trades would go mostly to charity. They and another founder […]

HARTFORD A Ponzi scheme artist who defrauded an Orange church out of roughly $2 million while making off with a total $27.2 million in additional fraudulent deals was sentenced Wednesday to serve 25 years in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Alvin Thompson did not buy the tearful, rambling apology Gregory P. Loles delivered to several […]

A Connecticut man who pleaded guilty of stealing $27 million from investors, including his Greek Orthodox Church, got a 25-year jail sentence. A Connecticut man who pleaded guilty in a fraud case in which prosecutors said he stole $27 million from investors, his own Greek Orthodox Church and a family in Greece was sentenced to […]

In all, the Connecticut-based Ponzi scheme cost investors $26 million. One wealthy Greek family alone lost $14 million. But also suffering a devastating blow was an Orange church known for its charitable efforts. Federal prosecutors say the man behind the scheme, Gregory Loles, siphoned $2.1 million from St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church. Scholarship endowment funds […]