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Originally posted by KnowledgeIsPowre
Why would the Vatican bank agree/comply with a US federal gov RICO charge, especially one that exposes all those people? This doesnt make much sense on a basic level to me.
Originally posted by VonDoomen
I figure this is relevant to the thread-
Chief Justice Clarence Thomas is revising his last 13 tax returns.
Could Thomas be trying to come clean before this story goes supernova?
Originally posted by Kailassa
It looks like Sorcha Faal has a rival.
There are plenty of theories about the Calvi Affair.
One is that Banco Ambrosiano was used by Calvi and Gelli to funnel huge sums of money to regimes throughout Latin America which were friendly to both the US government and the Vatican.
Some of these regimes, it is theorized, were also deeply involved in the international drug trade -- hence the interest of organized criminal groups throughout Italy and elsewhere.
It certainly wouldn’t be the first time where the interests of nation states, gangsters, the Vatican and intelligence services overlapped.
When Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba in 1959, for instance, all of these different groups were losers; the drug trade ground to a halt, casinos owned by mobsters were shut down, foreign corporations booted out, and thousands of Vatican priests hurried out of the country.
We know that in just one transaction, this out of probably hundreds, Calvi diverted $65 million from an Ambrosiano corporation in Peru to a numbered account in Zurich Switzerland which was owned by Liccio Gelli. Another transaction diverted $30 million to Flavio Carboni.
Earlier, I mentioned that Gelli negotiated the sale of Exocet missiles from France to Argentina, that was paid for by another Ambrosiano-Calvi transaction, and some of it came from the Vatican bank. David Yallop, in his book about the death of John Paul I titled “IN GOD’s NAME,” says that over $100 million was funneled from the Vatican to the Solidarity movement in Poland -- and this was all taking place while Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla, was excoriating Nicaraguan priests for getting involved in politics.
Another theory may well have been one that Calvi believed in, perhaps even up to the moment of his death. According to sworn depositions from his family, Calvi blamed “the priests”, men like Ortolani and Marcinkus, groups perhaps like Opus Dei, and certainly those men like Flavio Carboni who straddled the gulf between Liccio Gelli and Propaganda Due on one side, and the Vatican on the other.
By this theory, the Vatican “made a killing” and reaped huge sums of money by illegal offshore banking schemes, “peekaboo” finance, “anstalten” and other questionable financial devices.
It also bought enormous political influence and protection, because every single political party in Italy, and this includes the Christian Democrats, the Socialists and even the Communists, all of them were beholden to Banco Ambrosiano. And after doing all of that, it refused to bail out Roberto Calvi, and left him out to dry with a $1.3 billion debt and the certainty of a life in prison.
Originally posted by VonDoomen
reply to post by Blaine91555
Yes if you read the article it says that he had STOPPED putting his wife in his disclosure form in 1996/7.
I think we should ask why he stopped doing it since it seems rather strange?
And secondly, dont try putitng that left/right crap on me lol like im some democratic operative involved in some secret mission to destroy this man. Check my post history, You'll see i've evolved beyond the left/right paradigm.
I posted the article because It seemed possible with the timing that the two could of been related, and that was what I was pursuing. I will admit i breezed through the article quickly as i was in a rush before class.
Like all federal judges, Thomas must file annual disclosure reports on his personal finances, but he had omitted details of his wife’s earnings in what he wrote was a “misunderstanding of the filing instructions.” He also had checked a box marking no spousal income.
originally posted by: EssenSieMich
Slush fund accounts of major US politicians identified and seized at Vatican Bank (Rome).
Slush fund accounts of major US politicians identified and seized at Vatican Bank (Rome). Connection established with Daniel Dal Bosco RICO indictment, which cites Giancarlo Bruno, Silvio Berlusconi & Ban Ki Moon.
On Wednesday 5th January 2011, it emerged that US establishment-related slush fund accounts had been located in, and seized from, the Vatican Bank in Rome. The source of funds for these accounts in almost every instance was found to be the US Treasury.
Beneficiaries of the covert Vatican accounts include Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and each of the Obama children, Michelle Obama’s mother, all the Bushes and the Clintons, including Chelsea Clinton, Joe Biden, Timothy Geithner, Janet Napolitano, several US Senators, including Mitch McConnell, several US Congressmen including John Boehner, several US Military Chiefs of Staff, the US Provost Marshal, the US Judge Advocate General, the US Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Roberts, several US Judges, the Pope, and several cardinals.
Big money was found in each of the accounts. The longer the beneficiaries have been in office, the greater the account balances were found to be. They range from a few million USD to more than a billion USD in the case of John Roberts. The total number of slush fund accounts so far identified at the Vatican Bank is said to be between 600 and 700. This number is likely to grow as international élite corruption investigations spread worldwide.
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As this has been posted on the Wall Street Survivor Forums it still needs to be verified. If it proves to be accurate the importance is obvious enough and it is for that reason I have shared it. I will be working on connecting any dots that I can to verify this and ask for the assistance of others to do the same.