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From: Ed Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:37 PM To: Epstein, Jeff Subject: What's Behind The Pope's Resignation? RE: What's Behind The Pope's Resignation? The most important change in the Vatican may not be Pope Benedict XVI =udden retirement but the change in leadership at "the Institute =or Works of Religion," the Vatican's bank. Because of the =atican's status as a sovereign country, it is exempt from =ransparency rules of not only Italy— but of the European Union. =his status allows its elite clients to evade any scrutiny in their =oney transfers. Last May. Vatican Bank President Ettore Gotti =edeschi was fired after Italian authorities opened an investigation =nto a far flung bribery scheme in which he was allegedly involved. =hen 47 dossiers, including compromising about "internal enemies" =f his in the Vatican were found in a search of his home. They had =nstructions how they were used in case something happened to him. =edeschi's intercepted calls futher revealed that his concern was =hat he would be assassinated because he knoew the Vatican's secrets. =y late 2012, he was cooperating with the ongoing Italian =nvestigation, It was at this point that the all-powerful College of =ardinals, in one of the last acts in the Benedict papacy, appointed =erman lawyer Ernst von Freyberg as President of the bank. The came the =xtraordinary resignation of Pope Benedict. The problems at the Vatican bank =race back 30 years to the scandal that followed the sensational death =oberto Calvi, also known as God's Banker, who was hanged under =lackfriars bridge in London. If interested, see my extended =nvestigation into this ongoing scandal — "Who Killed God's =anker." http://amzn.to/WZCq6c Best regards Edward Jay Epstein <?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/Propertylist-1.0.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <dict> <key>conversation-id</key> <integer>245672</integer> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1361482633</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>6</integer> <integer>2</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>277822</string> </dict> </plist> EFTA_R1_01731124 EFTA02566115