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THE
POPES THREE BANKS IN AMERICA
THE POPES THREE BANKS IN AMERICA
by Sherman H. Skolnick
At one time the Pope owned three major banks in America
-- New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. In New York,
St. Peter's banker Michael Sindona, ran the Franklin
National Bank as a huge gambling device and money laundry.
The bank collapsed in 1974 and was taken over by a group
of European banks with the Vatican losing supposedly
part of their grip. Sindona was sent to an American
prison for fraudulent banking. Later, he was extradited
to Italy on more charges. He began talking too much.
The Pope silenced him in an Italian jail---murdered
with a poisoned cup of coffee. [See: "St.Peter's Banker",
by Luigi DiFonzo.]
By the way, the same method they used to murder Chicago's
first black Mayor, Harold Washington, 1987 and replaced
him as Mayor with the Vatican's "man of trust", Richie
Daley, son of late Richard J. Daley who had been mayor
for some 21 years. Harold when re-elected in 1987 said
he was going to take over Commonwealth Edison, the local
electric monopoly owned principally by the Vatican,
and run it as municipal electricity at a very cheap
price to Chicago residents. That was one of several
motives to poison Harold Washington.
Sindona and his confederate successors also ran, for
the Pope, the Continental Bank of Chicago [by about
1996 merged with the Pope's Bank of America]. All the
Catholic Churches of the Western Hemisphere run their
money through THAT bank. After all, the Archbishop of
Chicago is also the Treasurer, for the Church, for ALL
OF NORTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, and SOUTH AMERICA.
In the early 1980s, Continental Bank, through their
holding company owed some 20 Billion Dollars to the
Japanese including their mafia, the Yakuza who had put
in flight capital [hot money]. Continental could not
repay, so the Japanese in May, 1984, started a run on
the bank and its holding company, Continental Illinois.
Result? A consortium of banks, headed by J.P.Morgan
and Company, took over---with the Pope losing part but
not all of his control.
The Morgan banks are the front for British Royalty and
the Queen, who for over 100 prior years always had a
director sitting to supervise Continental. Through Continental
Bank, however, the Vatican continued to oversee Panama's
General Noriega, and his joint secret business deals
with George Herbert Walker Bush. So, when the U.S. invaded
Panama,1989, Noriega naturally sought refuge in the
Vatican papal office and branch of the Vatican Bank
in Panama. The U.S. Military used psychological warfare,
including super hard-rock music, to drive Noriega out.
In his book entitled "In God's Name", David Yallop tells
how Italian newspaper editors criticized the Pope for
doing nothing about Continental Bank and their links
to the mafia. Yallop documents how the previous Pontiff,
Pope John Paul 1st,opposing the mafia, was murdered
after 33 days in office.
The Justice Department's record-grabbers have descended
on Continental Bank, seeking to destroy incriminating
records that would put President Bush in the same jail
cell with his CIA business partner, General Noriega.
By the way, Panama, under General Noriega, was the ONLY
country in the Western Hemisphere run by a dark-skinned
person. Noriega was popular with the bulk of those in
Panama, who are people of color. It was only the small,
white aristocracy there that wanted him removed. They
used the branches of worldwide banks there to skim-off
loot from dope and gun running. Noriega was really just
a small-time, semi-independent tyrant.
Helping supervise Continental Bank has been the Vatican's
"man of trust"[trusted to keep their business secrets],
Chicago Federal Appeals Judge Walter J. Cummings, Jr.[he
died about 1999]. For many years Cummings was chief
judge of that Court made up primarily of banker-judges.
Judge Cummings steered cases on to his fellow banker-judges
who do NOT disqualify themselves in cases involving
their financial interests. Guess who wins in their crooked
court? [Cummings was replaced as Chief Judge by Richard
A. Posner. See our story, "Chief Crook Enters Microsoft
Mess".]
For many years the major owners of Bank of America and
their holding company, Bank America, were the Jesuits
and the Vatican, and their long-time cronies, the Rothschilds.
Like Continental Bank up to 1984, they owed tens of
Billions of Dollars to the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza
who own most of the other sizeable banks in California.
In the late 1980s, Bank of America was faced with a
run, so they have quietly given over most of the control
to the Japanese Yakuza.
Although the Pope has lost much of the control of the
three banks in America, the Pontiff continues as the
major owner in nuclear power utility firms in the U.S.,
including Commonwealth Edison and Florida Power [through
a Dutch front for the Vatican, called Robeco.] Under
the Atomic Energy Act, it is illegal for a FOREIGN entity,
such as the Vatican, to own nuclear facilities in America.
The law is not enforced.
St.Peter's Banker DiFonzo, Luigi New York: Franklin
Watts, 1983. 308 pages.
Four books in NameBase describe the 1970s Italian banking
scandals: "Power on Earth" by Nick Tosches, "St.Peter's
Banker" by Luigi DiFonzo, "God's Banker" by Rupert Cornwell,
and "The Calvi Affair" by Larry Gurwin. The first two
are about Michele Sindona, the last two about Roberto
Calvi. These scandals involved Sindona, Calvi, Pope
Paul VI, Bishop Paul Marcinkus and the Vatican Bank,
the Mafia, Licio Gelli and the P2 Lodge, Franklin National
Bank, Banco Ambrosiano, and shell companies too numerous
to mention. It's a story of international high finance
and lavish lifestyles that Hollywood might reject as
unrealistic: bank shares traded like baseball cards,
blood oaths and secret P2 membership lists, Mafia hits,
Italian intelligence agencies, terrorists, arms dealers,
corruption at the highest levels, and even a faked kidnapping.
Sindona's empire was collapsing by 1974, and his protege
Calvi's by 1978. In 1980 Sindona was convicted in the
U.S. on 65 counts of fraud and was extradited to Italy
in 1984, where two years later he was poisoned in his
cell while serving a life sentence for murder. Calvi
was convicted by an Italian court in 1981 of illegal
currency transactions. He was found hanging from a London
bridge the following year, possibly murdered, and $400
million is still missing. ISBN 0-531-09889-3
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