SCRANTON, Pa. — A contractor was sentenced to one year in federal prison and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine for bribing a northeastern Pennsylvania school board member. Michael Pasonick was sentenced Friday in Scranton. He pleaded guilty last year to paying a school director between $1,000 and $1,500 in an effort to secure district […]

SCRANTON – Despite appeals regarding his poor health and that of his wife, supportive statements from three Russian Orthodox clerics, an apology and mention of his plans to earn a doctor of theology degree, local engineer Michael J. Pasonick was sentenced Friday to one year in prison and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine and […]

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 […]

SCRANTON — Wilkes-Barre engineer Michael J. Pasonick was sentenced to one year in prison and a $250,000 fine by a federal judge today for bribing a Luzerne County School director. Pasonick, who has an extensive history of contracts with local governments and school boards, pleaded guilty to paying the member of a local school board […]

Macedonian police on Monday arrested Jovan Vraniskovski, a wanted Macedonian Orthodox priest convicted for embezzlement, who defected to the Serbian church. The police told Balkan Insight that Vraniskovski was arrested at the Medzitlija border crossing with Greece, where he entered the country. He is currently in detention in Skopje. Vraniskovski is to serve a two-and-a-half-year […]

* Campaigners accuse Church of avoiding tax payments * Church says it shares burden of crisis, pays its taxes * Socialist government doesn’t dare touch Church, adviser * Political pressure mounts for Church to do more ATHENS, July 15 (Reuters) – The Greek Orthodox Church owns more land than anyone except the state, employs thousands […]

There are growing objections to the hastily announced new property tax announced by the Greek government on Sept. 12. The Athens Bar Association is preparing to raise a legal challenge over the tax. The new property tax which was announced by the Greek government last Sunday, in a hasty measure to raise extra revenue to […]

”Only when you realize how powerfully that theory skews how you perceive the evidence can you throw it off and search instead for the thing that you are trying to avoid, a fraud.” Last week the SEC filed an emergency enforcement action to halt what it claims was an ongoing Ponzi scheme that promised investors […]

Litigation Release No. 22117 / October 6, 2011 Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Release No. 3326 / October 6, 2011 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Eric Aronson, Vincent Buonauro, Jr., Robert Kondratick, Fredric Aaron, Esq., PermaPave Industries, LLC, PermaPave USA Corp., PermaPave Distributions, Inc., Permeable Solutions, Inc., Verigreen, LLC, and Interlink-US-Network, Ltd., Defendants, and Caroline Aronson, […]

Executives of a Long Island paver company were arrested Thursday and charged with operating a four-year Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of $26 million. The Securities and Exchange Commission obtained an emergency court order Thursday to stop the alleged scheme that promised investors rich returns on water-filtering natural stone pavers, but instead took them […]