Paterakis

On December 18, 2005, DEBORAH ANN PATERAKIS (nee Tzomides); beloved wife of William J. Paterakis; devoted mother of Jonathon George, Adam Anthony, and Kira Ariel Paterakis; loving daughter of the late George E. and Agnes P. Tzomides; dear sister of Sandra Hondroulis and Thomas Tzomides D.D.S. The family will receive friends at the Grand Lodge of Maryland, 302 International Circle, Hunt Valley, MD 21031 on Tuesday, from 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 P.M. In addition, a Trisagion will be held that evening at 7:30 P.M. Mrs. Paterakis will Lie-In-State in the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation (Maryland and Preston Streets)

Harbor Point, a development project led by bakery magnate and developer John Paterakis Sr., will be the site of the headquarters for the combined Constellation-Exelon company if the proposed merger is completed, the energy giants announced Wednesday. The prospect of adding a new office tower to Baltimore's skyline excited city officials and the development community. But some were disappointed that the companies chose a site between Harbor East and Fells Point, rather than in the central business district.

Deborah Ann Paterakis, a retired stockbroker and contractor, and mother of triplets, died of colon cancer Sunday at her Stevenson home. She was 48. Born Deborah Ann Tzomides in Baltimore and raised in Perry Hall, she earned academic, musical and athletic awards while at Perry Hall Senior High School, where she graduated in 1975. She performed in the school's band as a flute player and was captain of the cheerleading team. While a teen, Mrs. Paterakis worked alongside her mother, Agnes Tzomides, at her shops, The Yardstick Fabrics and the Alexsandra Bridal Salon.

Each year, when The National Herald issues its ranking of the 50 Wealthiest Greeks in America, two Baltimoreans usually make the list: Peter Angelos and John Paterakis . Angelos, a trial lawyer and majority owner of the Orioles, appears on this year's list at No. 21, with an estimated net worth of $450 million. But McDonald's bun magnate and Harbor East developer Paterakis is nowhere to be found. Last year he came in 39th, with $240 million. Could he possibly have fallen from that height to below this year's No. 50, Chartwell Hotels founder George Tsunis , who has a measly $72.5 million in the bank?

The man who got his start in bread but went on to become a multimillionaire and one of Baltimore's most prolific developers will be honored tonight as "Business Leader of the Year," an honor presented annually by the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola College. John Paterakis Sr., president of H&S Bakery Inc., will receive the award at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel. With 1,100 tickets sold, it is the largest turnout in the event's 18-year history. Paterakis joined his father's storefront bakery at age 23 and helped expand it into a national company with clients such as McDonald's Corp.

He was the millionaire businessman Mayor William Donald Schaefer called on more than two decades ago to help out with a big problem. Some 20 acres of lumberyards and warehouses between the then-newly redeveloped Inner Harbor and Fells Point faced an uncertain future. Schaefer wanted John Paterakis Sr., bakery magnate and campaign contributor, to do the city a favor and buy the land. For $11 million, Paterakis did, but the city backed down on a promise to buy back the industrial stretch later.

Most of the time John Paterakis is content to be inconspicuous, moving quietly yet effectively through the business day. Having his name in the newspaper, or calling a press conference, isn't his cup of tea, or in this instance, loaf of bread.All kinds of propositions come across his desk and it must take weeks to sort them out . . . those for rejection, the ones to talk about and the precious few he decides to pursue with intent. He's frequently mentioned as an important player in efforts to buy sports franchises but, to this point in his life, hasn't made a commitment to fun and games.

John Paterakis Sr., the baker and well-connected developer who bankrolled Harbor East, pleaded guilty Friday afternoon to two misdemeanor campaign finance violations and will pay $26,000 in fines and be barred from donating to Baltimore politicians until his probation ends in January 2012. Paterakis had been indicted on charges that he exceeded the allowable donations limits by contributing $6,000 toward a re-election poll commissioned by City Councilwoman Helen L. Holton. A major political and business power broker, Paterakis usually stays behind the scenes and on Friday declined Circuit Judge Dennis M. Sweeney's offer to address the court.

John Paterakis, baker of bread, desirous builder of a great big waterfront hotel, defender of his city and himself, limps into a little meeting room at his H&S Bakery on Fleet Street the other day and commences to vent a few careful emotions."

That was quite a turnout a couple of weeks ago as Loyola College honored B-more mega-mogul John Paterakis. Some 1,200 folks filled the Renaissance Inner Harbor ballroom for the "2002 Business Leader of the Year Award Dinner." Loyola's Sel-linger School of Business and Management has been throwing the event each year since 1983. "This was the biggest, best attended, so far," says Sellinger School dean Lee Dahringer, "certainly the most popular we've had to date." Talk about a room packed with powerful people.

The plea deal had been negotiated long before John Paterakis Sr. made it official in a Baltimore courtroom on Friday. And the bread man turned Harbor East honcho seemed more than ready to sign off on his guilty plea to a couple of campaign finance violations and move on. Judge Dennis M. Sweeney had just started listing the terms of the agreement and the details of Paterakis' sentence. He had barely ordered the first fine, for $1,000 - and had yet to mete out a second, $25,000 penalty and probation - when Paterakis reached into a pants pocket, pulled out two blank checks and had a pen poised to fill them out. It was an impressively quick draw for the 80-year-old Paterakis, but then, he's written a lot of checks over the years.

John Paterakis Sr., the baker and well-connected developer who bankrolled Harbor East, pleaded guilty Friday afternoon to two misdemeanor campaign finance violations and will pay $26,000 in fines and be barred from donating to Baltimore politicians until his probation ends in January 2012. Paterakis had been indicted on charges that he exceeded the allowable donations limits by contributing $6,000 toward a re-election poll commissioned by City Councilwoman Helen L. Holton. A major political and business power broker, Paterakis usually stays behind the scenes and on Friday declined Circuit Judge Dennis M. Sweeney's offer to address the court.

John Paterakis Sr., the baker and well-connected developer who bankrolled Harbor East, pleaded guilty Friday afternoon to two misdemeanor campaign finance violations and will pay $26,000 in fines and be barred from donating to Baltimore politicians until his probation ends in January 2012. Paterakis had been indicted on charges that he exceeded the allowable donations limits by contributing $6,000 toward a re-election poll commissioned by City Councilwoman Helen L. Holton. A major political and business power broker, Paterakis usually stays behind the scenes and on Friday declined Circuit Judge Dennis M. Sweeney's offer to address the court.

Back when I first joined The Baltimore Sun, a photographer and I were coming back from an assignment in Fells Point, and he was doing what all good old-timers do - pointing out significant sites along the way for a newbie. That's where Grace Hartigan paints, that's where the body turned up the other day. Waving toward some low-slung nondescript buildings where tractor-trailers were maneuvering on and off a narrow street, he said something like, "And that's owned by one of the most powerful men in town.

The furs are back. So's the Ritz in Colorado. The $3,200 weekend getaway to New York's Trump International. The $8,400 spending spree at Chicago's Armani, Coach and St. John Boutique. The state prosecutor's do-over indictment puts the bling back into the case against Mayor Sheila Dixon. But the new charges don't just restore the glitzy travel and Jimmy Choos that a Circuit Court judge tossed out on a technicality in May. It also gives us Dixon doing what big-city mayors do best: begging for cash.

Armchair analysts will no doubt try to play down the significance of the indictments State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh has brought this week against Mayor Sheila Dixon, City Councilwoman Helen L. Holton and bakery magnate, developer and political kingmaker John Paterakis. Mr. Rohrbaugh will be cast as a rogue, Kenneth Starr-like prosecutor bent on taking down Baltimore's powerful Democrats and willing to grasp at any legal technicalities to do it. But the issues raised by those indictments - whether Ms. Dixon perjured herself by failing to disclose thousands of dollars in gifts from someone doing business with the city and whether Mr. Paterakis and Ms. Holton broke campaign finance laws when he helped fund her re-election poll - are fundamental to our trust in our elected officials.

John Paterakis Sr., the self-made baking magnate and developer of the Harbor East complex, was indicted Tuesday on two counts of campaign finance violations accusing him of contributing $6,000 to help pay for a city councilwoman's political poll. The councilwoman, Helen L. Holton, also was indicted for alleged campaign violations, after winning a dismissal two months ago of bribery charges in connection with the political survey. The new charges were handed up by a Baltimore grand jury at the request of State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh, whose three-year investigation of alleged corruption at City Hall has reached the highest rungs of the city's business community.

Two more prominent Baltimore businessmen are considering joining Tom Clancy's bid to own a Baltimore NFL team, should the city win an expansion franchise.Bakery owner John Paterakis and developer Henry J. Knott Jr. are considering joining the group, which is headed by Clancy, the Baltimore-born author, and James Robinson, a Baltimore business executive with interests in movie making and auto importing.Other members of the group are Louis J. Grasmick, head of the Louis J. Grasmick Lumber Co., and ex-Colts and Hall of Famers John Unitas and John Mackey, a private consultant living in Los Angeles.

He was the millionaire businessman Mayor William Donald Schaefer called on more than two decades ago to help out with a big problem. Some 20 acres of lumberyards and warehouses between the then-newly redeveloped Inner Harbor and Fells Point faced an uncertain future. Schaefer wanted John Paterakis Sr., bakery magnate and campaign contributor, to do the city a favor and buy the land. For $11 million, Paterakis did, but the city backed down on a promise to buy back the industrial stretch later.

John Paterakis Sr., the self-made baking magnate and developer of the Harbor East complex, was indicted Tuesday on two counts of campaign finance violations accusing him of contributing $6,000 to help pay for a city councilwoman's political poll. The councilwoman, Helen L. Holton, also was indicted for alleged campaign violations, after winning a dismissal two months ago of bribery charges in connection with the political survey. The new charges were handed up by a Baltimore grand jury at the request of State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh, whose three-year investigation of alleged corruption at City Hall has reached the highest rungs of the city's business community.