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Sidona's "death" was just like Epstein's

Sindona was repeatedly linked to the financial disasters, and the press finally began to discuss his criminal connections, often in association with his ties to the Vatican. He “was called ‘mysterious Michele’ because of his secretive financial operations, which included large investments for Italian politicians, the Vatican, the failed Franklin Bank in New York and the Mafia.” .

In the end he was arrested, convicted and imprisoned for massive financial crimes in New York. Sindona was quoted as saying, “They are afraid I could reveal some very delicate information that they don’t want divulged.

While in protective solitary confinement in Italy’s maximum security prison Sindona partook of a cup of coffee and then came into the view of guards exclaiming, “‘They have poisoned me’ before collapsing into a quickly lethal coma” (Dionne 1986a). “His body was contaminated with cyanide. The poisoning of a man who was watched in a prison cell by television monitors and protected by 12 prison guards working in shifts was only the latest in a train of scandals.

http://churchandstate.org.uk/2016/02/the-understold-story-the-vatican-the-mob-super-ponzi-schemes-and-more/

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Wth Sindona no longer available by the mid 1970s Paul VI appointed a replacement. “Mr. Roberto Calvi replaced Mr. Sindona as a key financial advisor to the Vatican” (Raab 1982, Cornwell 1986). Roberto Calvi was another notorious Mafia banker with long standing ties to the Vatican Bank, as well as a Mason (Cornwell 1986, Owen 2005).

Roberto Calvi (13 April 1920 – 17 June 1982) was called "God's Banker"

Cornwell, R. 1984. God’s Banker: An Account of the Life and Death of Roberto Calvi. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd.

Owen, R. 2005. “Plea to Pope from ‘God’s banker’ revealed as murder trial begins.” London Times 10/06.

Raab, S. 1982. “Sindona in U.S. Prison, Stays enmeshed in Global Inquiries.” NYT Dec. 27: A1, D10.

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After the death of Paul VI in 1979, followed by that of John Paul I in a few weeks, John Paul II was elected. A dedicated Polish anti-leftist who openly acknowledged he favored the absolute power of the papacy, he immediately became wildly popular.

Interesting note: when he was young in Wadowice, Poland, John Paul II's greatest ambition was to be an actor.

In these years, as he later described himself, he was “completely absorbed by a passion for literature, especially dramatic literature, and for the theater” (Pope John Paul II, Gift and Mystery).

https://danielmcinerny.blogspot.com/2011/04/pope-john-paul-ii-actor.html

John Paul II’s dream of reviving EuroChristianity by funding the anti-communist movement in Poland. John Paul II imagined he could save the situation by overturning dictatorial atheism in eastern Europe, thereby inspiring a return to Catholic devotion in the west. The anti-communist Solidarity labor movement, for instance, needed large sums of money to be effective. This could only be done through illegal means, and it appears that John Paul II used the church’s well developed ties with organized criminal elements, such as Roberto Calvi to deliver about 100 million dollars to the Solidarity movement (Lech Walesa)

Eventually, Calvi and Marcinkus and the “Vatican Bank were caught up in the collapse of the Italian bank Blanco Ambrisiano in 1982.…. In this financial disaster the IOR’s involvement “stemmed from its alleged direct or indirect ownership of Panamanian shell companies used to funnel $1.3 billion. The scandal has deeply embarrassed the Vatican even though it refused to disclose its full role in the affair ….

While officially denying wrongdoing the Papacy tacitly acknowledged involvement when John Paul II paid $250 million to Ambrisiano creditors — the ability to raise such a large sum contradicts chronic Papal claims of Vatican poverty.

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Numerous articles in a number of respected newspapers have strongly linked the Catholic church and the Mafia through documented connections between Marcinkus, Paul VI, John Paul II, Gelli, with the murders of Sindona and Calvi, as well as many others.

Following the sex abuse and similar ethical disasters it is now apparent that the church is capable of creating and covering up major scandals that are revealed only by strong public and official exposure and pressure. Yet, despite the grave implications of the evidence published so far, no mainstream periodical has published a multi-page, in-depth investigative article or series on alleged relations between the Holy See and the underworld

http://churchandstate.org.uk/2016/02/the-understold-story-the-vatican-the-mob-super-ponzi-schemes-and-more/

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Numerous articles in a number of respected newspapers have strongly linked the Catholic church and the Mafia through documented connections between Marcinkus, Paul VI, John Paul II, Gelli, with the murders of Sindona and Calvi, as well as many others.

Following the sex abuse and similar ethical disasters it is now apparent that the church is capable of creating and covering up major scandals that are revealed only by strong public and official exposure and pressure. Yet, despite the grave implications of the evidence published so far, no mainstream periodical has published a multi-page, in-depth investigative article or series on alleged relations between the Holy See and the underworld

http://churchandstate.org.uk/2016/02/the-understold-story-the-vatican-the-mob-super-ponzi-schemes-and-more/

Despite the obvious story appeal, the only feature films that have attempted to portray the Vatican’s underworld connections are the 1990 The Godfather III, a box office failure, and the 2002 God’s Banker which focused on Calvi.

shall I go on? (I'd be glad to.)