| In SDNY Alleged Defrauder of
Greek Orthodox Church Gets 2022 Trial Date
Amid Backlog
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 3 – When the former
executive director of the
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in
America Jerome Dimitriou was
presented on November 25, 2019
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Magistrate Judge Robert
Lehrburger, he was still in
the checked shirt he was
wearing when arrested at 6 am.
He
left the Archdiocese in 2017
and has for some unspecified
period since negotiated with
the US Attorney's office about
his use of funds in the
position. His retained lawyer
Nathaniel Marmur on November
25 cited a 24-month sentencing
guideline if
guilty.
Assistant US
Attorney Michael Neff said
that was never offered, and
that further investigation
might result in an increase to
their estimate of a sentencing
guideline of 51 to 71 months,
or 41 to 51 if acceptance of
responsibility, that is, a
guilty plea.
Judge Lehrburger bailed
Dimitriou for $150,000 with
two co-signers and a gun to be
turned in on or before
November 26. He left pre-trial
supervision "as directed,"
saying it is up to them.
Afterward
Inner City Press asked
Dimitrou's lawyer Nathanial
Marmur how long the
negotiations with the US
Attorney's Office continued.
While that was not answered on
the record, to his credit he
said his client has been
dedicated to the Church and
looked forward to all the
facts coming out.
On December 3
Dimitriou appeared again, now
before District Judge
Katherine Polk Failla. Inner
City Press called it, and when
asked muted its line.
We can
report that Dimitriou was
given a trial date... in 2020.
January 10, 2020, to be exact
- more than a year out, due to
the backlog of trials
occasioned by the COVID-19
pandemic and the
prioritization of detained
defendants.
The case is US v.
Demitriou, 19-cr-894
(Failla)
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