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Vatican Dogged by Allegations of Money Laundering
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/vatican-allegations-money-laundering/2025/08/11/id/1222020/
Monday, 11 August 2025 11:55 AM EDT
A former auditor general of the Vatican is resurfacing allegations that the city-state used a "skeleton key for money laundering," and he is trying to state his case before Pope Leo XIV, according to reports.
Libero Milone, a former auditor at accounting firm Deloitte, was forced to resign in 2017 amid claims that he was a spy. Milone, instead, insists he was terminated by a former police chief and cardinal, Giovanni Angelo Becciu, because he had uncovered financial wrongdoing, Politico reported. Becciu was convicted of embezzlement in 2023 for misusing Vatican funds.
Milone, who was appointed by Pope Francis in 2015, claims that the payroll agency of the Vatican had found a way to alter names and account numbers on transactions after they were made, disguising the identity of recipients and senders, according to the report.
The Vatican has brushed off the accusation as technically impossible. However, Milone claims he is in possession of documents that can prove the systematic corruption prior to his dismissal in 2017, The Pillar reported.
"I want to speak to the Pope," Milone said on July 30, "but the Pope needs to speak to me, not because I am clever or anything [but] because he is surrounded by people who will never tell him what actually happened. There is a level of self-protection in the Vatican which was there before by a group of people centrally who will never tell the Pope the true story," he said, according to The Pillar.
Milone's claims amount to unlimited money laundering and violations of anti-fraud laws, Politico reported. If proven, "the Vatican would likely end up on an international financial blacklist of the darkest kind, frozen out of the international banking system, meaning no money could come in or out of the city-state except in literal, physical cash," Politico reported.
The Vatican told Politico last week that Milone's allegations are "completely unfounded." A person familiar with the payroll software told Politico that "it is not possible to alter the content of a payment message once it has been sent."
Regardless, Milone is seeking a meeting with the Pope because he believes corruption is still rampant within the curia.
"I'm not trying to blackmail anybody," Milone said, according to The Pillar. "I think the legal process has to be followed through. But I have evidence, and I know what I did, and I'm absolutely sure what we did was correct — and so do 95% of the people in the Vatican, by the way, I'm sure."
JD Vance: Indictments Coming in Russian Collusion Probe
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/jd-vance-donald-trump-tulsi-gabbard/2025/08/10/id/1221947/
Sunday, 10 August 2025 04:07 PM EDT
Vice President JD Vance said he expects "a lot of people [to] get indicted" as a result of the Department of Justice investigating Barack Obama and other members of the former president's administration over the since-debunked Russian collusion claims.
Attorney General Pam Bondi early last week launched a grand jury investigation following a criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard regarding the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, which claimed Moscow interfered in the 2016 election.
After Gabbard outlined how the Russian collusion road map led all the way up to Obama, Trump said the former president was "guilty" of "treason."
When Vance appeared Sunday on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked the vice president whether he "wanted to see indictments."
"I absolutely want to see indictments," Vance told Bartiromo. "Look, of course, you've got to have the law follow the facts here. You don't just indict people to indict people. You indict people because they broke the law.
"But if you look at what Tulsi and [FBI Director] Kash Patel have revealed in the last couple of weeks, I don't know how anybody can look at that and say that there wasn't aggressive violations of the law."
Vance said documents show Obama and administration members "defrauded the American people, in order to take Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign talking points and turn them into intelligence by defrauding the American people, defrauding the intelligence agencies, lying about what the intel said."
"They would take something that supported a Hillary Clinton campaign talking point and they would overemphasize it and exaggerate it," the vice president explained. "They took anything that actually contradicted that narrative, and they buried it deep. And through that they actually laundered Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign talking points through the American intelligence services."
The vice president said he agreed with his boss, President Donald Trump.
"I absolutely think they broke the law. You're gonna see a lot of people get indicted for that," Vance said. "Here's the thing that should really bother the American people. What do you want our intelligence community to be doing? I want them to be catching bad guys. I want to be making sure that terrorists aren't gonna kill innocent American civilians.
"I don't want them laundering Hillary Clinton's campaign talking points into the American media and giving them this air of legitimacy. It is sick and it's disgusting."
Steal the key to the lock, and walk away.
That one has been 'touched' with socialism…after you're done with it, get plenty of Lysol.
Isn't the senate out for August break?