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...Vatican Bank scandal had a dramatic opening in June 1982 when Calvi, who was known as "God's banker" because of his Vatican connections, was found hanging from London's Blackfriars Bridge, his pockets stuffed with $13,000 in / various currencies. Later Michele Sindona, the corrupt Italian financier who introduced Calvi to Marcinkus, died in jail after drinking a cup of coffee laced with potassium cyanide...
...family also unwittingly became embroiled in a New York scandal during the mid-1970s. Loews had bought a $40 million stake in the Franklin National Bank, which was sold to Michele Sindona, an Italian financier. When the bank later failed, Sindona was convicted of looting its assets, and Loews was sued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and a bankruptcy trustee for breach of fiduciary duty and misuse of inside information. Without admitting any wrongdoing, Loews agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle the suits...
...treaty also allows a person convicted in one country to be extradited to the other before having served a full jail sentence. The day the agreement went into effect, U.S. marshals hustled Michele Sindona, an Italian citizen serving a 25-year term in a U.S. federal prison for various offenses in connection with the collapse of the Franklin National Bank, aboard a flight to Milan. He faces trial there on charges stemming from the failure of his Italian financial empire. If Sindona is convicted in Italy, he will still have to be returned to the U.S. to serve...
...Malpensa Airport. Then he was flown to Rome and whisked to Rebibbia prison, where he now occupies a cell recently vacated by Ali Agca, the Turkish terrorist who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. With such swift efficiency, the U.S. last week shipped Michele Sindona, 64, home on the day that a new extradition treaty with Italy went into effect...
...Sindona had been serving a 25-year sentence at a federal prison in Otisville, N.Y., for fraud in connection with the 1974 collapse of Franklin National Bank. He bought control of the Long Island-based bank and allegedly siphoned off $15 million from it. In Italy, Sindona faces fraud charges resulting from the 1974 failure of his Banca Privata Italiana, part of a financial empire once estimated to be worth $450 million. He has also been accused of ordering the 1 979 murder of Giorgio Ambrosoli, a lawyer appointed to liquidate Banca Privata Italiana. Even if Sindona is convicted...