USA ARMENIAN LIFE’S MEDIA INQUIRY/RESPONSE TO ARCH. HOVNAN DERDERIAN’S LAWYER BRIAN KABATECK
Posted on October. 25. 2022
Mr. Kabateck,
I am in receipt of your letter dated October 11, 2022 regarding the “MEDIA INQUIRY” TO THE WESTERN DIOCESE dated Thu, Oct 6, 2022 sent via email. I categorically reject your false accusations hurled at a reputable news organization and a group of investigative journalists and concerned citizens of the Western Diocese’s inner circles and the wider American Armenian community.
Instead of having your client Archbishop Hovnan Derderian answer honestly and transparently with a simple “yes” or “no” to alleged child molestation accusations, you have chosen to come up with a ridiculous letter, filled with legal mumbojumbo featuring entire paragraphs jam-packed with complete falsehoods.
Another valid reason to reject the spirit of your letter, is that you’re misguided in thinking that you are entitled to legally harass a reputable investigative reporter searching for an answer to a legitimate question which is of utmost concern to our Diocese and the well-being of our community.
You have claimed that “individuals” are “seeking to unjustly and maliciously damage the (Western) Diocese and Archbishop Derderian’s name and reputation upon the gravely mistaken assumption that it will serve their interests in other matters.”
Firstly, are you aware of the fact that Archbishop Hovnan Derderian already had a severely damaged reputation upon his arrival in Los Angeles, starting all the way from the convent of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia in Lebanon from which he was expelled, all the way to the Canada Diocese where he has misappropriated First Artsakh War’s fallen Armenian Soldiers widows and orphan aid fund?
Secondly, are you aware of the fact that the Western Diocese had already started suffering damage to its reputation because of your client – Archbishop
Hovnan Derderian’s frivolous and illegal behavior against a number of individuals and parties both within the Diocese and the larger community? (See article title “What Happened to Alavjian Catering at the Western Diocese?”). As a result of your client Arch. Derderian’s illegal lock out of a rightful tenant — Mr. Alavjian from the Western Diocese catering hall, the Western Diocese lost a legal action back in early 2000’s which turned out to be the beginning of a litany of lost court cases by the Western Diocese under the ‘leadership’ of Arch. Derderian. The Court Judgement: “The court issued an injunction in FAVOR of Mr. Hallajian and the next day as per court orders, Arch. Derderian gave a set of new keys to Mr. Hallajian.”
Thirdly, are you aware of the fact that the Western Diocese continued suffering damage to its reputation because your client Archbishop Hovnan Derderian’s personal assistant and Western Diocese spokesman Pastor Manouk Markarian has been found as a ‘liar’ by Judge Hammock in a U.S. Court of Law in a 2018 court case?
Fourthly, do you, by any chance, know the whereabouts of the three individuals as seen in the “WANTED by BURBANK POLICE” poster below?
These three individuals together resorted to issuing a death threat against a defenseless investigative journalist.
I have credible information that newly arrived shady characters/ individuals from Armenia, Russia and other countries, the ‘colleagues’ of the above issuers of the Death Threat, now are in Los Angeles’s Western Diocese and have begun to covertly bully this investigative reporter into silence once again. Your blind and misguided defense of your corrupted client Archbishop Derderian and his fellow clansmen is adding fuel to the fire and wittingly or unwittingly emboldening these questionable characters to resort to violence against defenseless, innocent reporters such as the author of this letter.
Legally, I am not worried. In fact, I welcome the opportunity to appear in a U.S. court of law and let the court decide based on the evidence. Conversely, I am deeply concerned about the imminent danger posed by these ‘special’ characters that are reportedly embedded in a criminal circle led by your corrupted client Arch. Hovnan Derderian and his fellow partners — Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II and Primate of Diocese of Russia Arch. Yezras of Moscow. Arch. Yezras is a blood brother of Catholicos Karekin II. Please see article titled “MERUZHAN HARTENYAN ASSASSINATED International Money Launderer – Drug Trafficker Diocesan Council Chair (in Greece) Handpicked by Karekin II.” Awaiting your client Archbishop Hovnan Derderian‘s straightforward and brief response regarding the alleged child molestation accusations so that I can publish in an upcoming issue of USA Armenian Life Magazine.
Best regards,
Appo Jabarian
Managing Editor