Stumbled across some other information on comet ping pong owner James Alefantis.
This article states he grew up in Buffalo and Washington.
(http://archive.is/ystAS))
Little has been known about Alefantis's roots so far. Maybe someone can dig up birth or adoption records knowing he's from upstate new york.
Seems like James Alefantis has used Achilles and Strand as his middle name at various times. http://archive.is/j36ag
I suspect achilles or strand might be the last name on his birth records. Can someone look up his birth records with Achilles, Strand and Alefantis in NY state?
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CandyPanda ago
I had noticed this in an article about Media Matters and David Brock http://nymag.com/news/media/david-brock-media-matters-2011-5/index2.html
"When Brock was beginning to write a business plan for Media Matters in 2003, Alefantis suggested he seek advice from the liberal legal doyenne Judith Lichtman, whose daughter had grown up with Alefantis. “After James called Judy, I literally went upstairs to the library and got The Real Anita Hill and looked up Lichtman in the index,” Brock recalls. “There were fifteen references. And we were like, ‘Oh, shit.’ ” When they later met, the first thing he did was apologize."