# Plato Kacheris

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*A spelling variant of the name of John Kiriakou's lead defence attorney, who appears in the auto-generated transcripts as both "Kacheris" and "Cacheris". The article on him is at Plato Cacheris.*

- **See:** [Plato Cacheris](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/plato-cacheris)
- **Why two spellings:** Auto-generated captions render the surname inconsistently

**Plato Kacheris** is a transcription variant of the surname of [Plato Cacheris](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/plato-cacheris), [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)'s lead defence attorney in the 2012–2013 prosecution. The automatic captions on which this encyclopedia's source corpus is built render the name inconsistently — *"Plato Kacheris"* in some episodes, *"Plato Cacheris"* or *"Plato Catereras"* in others — and the variant is retained here so that either spelling reaches the article.[1][2]

The full account of his role — the descending plea offers, the ruling that ended the case, and the morning he drove to Kiriakou's house to tell him to take the deal — is at **[Plato Cacheris](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/plato-cacheris)**.

## See also

- [Plato Cacheris](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/plato-cacheris)
- [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)

## Sources

1. Episode 056 - Whistleblowers with Special Guest John Kiriakou (2021-05-13), at 29:36. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aud9273765b9&t=1776s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2021-05-13-green-socialist-notes-episode-056-whistleblowers-with-special-guest/
2. THE NEVER BROKEN PODCAST (2026-05-09), at 45:16. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il_KYmRx24Q&t=2716s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-05-09-the-never-broken-podcast-the-never-broken-podcast/

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