and andrew's money is our money. look at what the food truck woman did to the king in the second circuit
Wandering Dago, Inc. v. Destito, No. 16-622 (2d Cir. 2018)
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Justia Opinion Summary
WD filed suit against OGS, alleging that defendants violated its rights under the First Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause, and the New York State Constitution by denying WD's applications to participate as a food truck vendor in the Lunch Program based on its ethnic-slur branding. The Second Circuit reversed the district court's grant of summary judgment for defendant, holding that defendants' action violated WD's equal protection rights and its rights under the New York State Constitution. In this case, it was undisputed that defendants denied WD's applications solely because of its ethnic-slur branding. In Matal v. Tam, 137 S. Ct. 1744 (2017), the Supreme Court clarified that this action amounted to viewpoint discrimination and, if not government speech or otherwise protected, was prohibited by the First Amendment. The court rejected defendants' argument that their actions were unobjectionable because they were either part of OGS's government speech or permissible regulation of a government contractor's speech.
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
Greenlawn man accused of embezzling over $500G from national Greek Orthodox group
Jerome Dimitriou, former executive director of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, at the St. Nicholas National Shrine in New York on Aug. 10, 2017. Credit: AP/Mark Lennihan
Federal prosecutors said Monday that a Greenlawn man who once served as top administrator of a national religious organization embezzled more than half a million dollars from the group toward the end of his 17-year tenure.
Jerome Dimitriou, 55, former executive director of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, was arrested Monday and appeared in U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert W. Lehrburger’s Manhattan courtroom to answer two counts of wire fraud.
Each count carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, prosecutors said. Dimitriou was free on $150,000 bail.
“As the executive director of a non-profit religious organization, Jerome Dimitriou was supposed to serve the organization, not himself,” said Geoffrey S. Berman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District, in a news release. “As alleged, over several years, he abused his leadership position and embezzled over half a million dollars through two different schemes.”
His attorney, Nathaniel Marmur, said his client has served the church for much of his life.
“Jerry Dimitriou has dedicated his life to the church,” Marmur said. “We eagerly look forward to all the facts in this case coming to light.’
But prosecutors said Dimitriou siphoned $488,290 in one scheme by “directing subordinates to issue him unauthorized excess salary payments” and another $61,286.20 through “hundreds of personal expenses” charged to his organization’s credit card.
Those purchases included 204 charges for airline travel with his family, “552 iTunes charges; at least approximately 71 charges for a gym membership at David Barton Gym; and at least approximately 44 retail charges, including at such stores as Sears, Home Depot, CVS, Duane Reade, Walgreens, and Vitamin Shoppe.”
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