Company fined $215,000 after earning $1 million An Alberta company owned by a Ukrainian Orthodox priest admitted today it brought in dozens of Polish workers to Alberta under false pretenses and skimmed their pay. Father John Lipinski of St. Paul, Alta., along with his wife Angela and business partner Calvin Steinhauer, faced charges for bringing […]

Conflicting Audit Reports Spark Gen. Assembly Donnybrook JAMAICA – St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox parish in Jamaica seems to be in trouble for not paying taxes on a discount store it owns and also for violating building codes. The news was first published by the New York Post on September 10th. TNH has learned that the […]

A schismatic monastery sues an Orthodox archbishop over copyrighted religious texts Last Thursday a Boston district court judge ruled in favor of the Holy Transfiguration Monastery, finding that a former member, now an archbishop in another Orthodox sect, illegally copied seven of the monastery’s texts and posted them to his website. It’s a fascinating case but difficult to break down […]

Athens, March 29, 2012 Athens Court of Appeal changed the measure of restraint for the Archimandrite Ephrem, abbot of the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos. He will be released on bail of 300 000 euros, subject to the prohibition to leave the country and the monastery Vatopedi. Also he must report to the police regularly. […]

Moscow, December 28, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate has spoken in defense of Archimandrite Yefrem, superior of the Vatopedi Monastery in Athos. “It is perfectly obvious that the arrest of a person such as Archimandrite Yefrem, who does not pose any danger, without considering the case on its merits and before a court ruling is […]

Athens, March 1, 2012 On March 1, the appeals court of Thrace reviewed the case of Vatopedi Abbot Ephraim, Monk Arsenios, and judicial representative of the trial court, Maria Psalti, and sentenced them to six months in prison with a three-year stay of execution, reports Sedmitza.ru, citing the Amen news agency. All the above-named persons […]

Wilkes-Barre engineer Michael J. Pasonick Jr. would prefer to serve his one-year sentence for bribing a school board member close to home, according to a motion filed in U.S. District Court by his attorney today. The motion asks U.S. District Judge Richard Conaboy to recommend to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons that Pasonick, 69, be […]

SCRANTON – An attorney for Michael Pasonick, who was sentenced Friday on a bribery charge, is requesting his client to be jailed at a federal correctional institution in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Pasonick, 70, was sentenced to one year in federal prison on allegations he bribed a school official in Luzerne County. His attorney, Joseph Sklarosky Sr., […]

An engineer from Wilkes-Barre was sentenced Friday to one year in prison for bribing a Luzerne County school director. It is the latest punishment handed down in the on-going corruption scrandal. Michael Pasonick offered cash to a Luzerne County board member in exchange for a contract back in 2007. He admitted he offered the elected […]

SCRANTON — Despite appeals regarding his health and that of his wife, statements from three Russian Orthodox clerics, and mention of his own plans to earn a doctor of theology, local engineer Michael J. Pasonick was sentenced to one year prison, a $250,0000 fine and two years probation on federal charges he bribed a school […]