Episode 4: Romans

The Confessions of Anthony Raimondi

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Society & Culture, #Truecrime, Mob, Pope John Paul I, #Investigativejournalism, True Crime, #Investigativereporting, #Internetcrime, Pope, Vatican, Mafia, #Truestory, Documentary, Anthony Raimondi

4.4 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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After returning home, Anthony gets a phone call from The Vatican. His cousin, a Cardinal, wants help selling counterfeit stocks.

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0:00.0	This is sort of one of those stories that, you know, is so intriguing.
0:05.5	It's kind of unbelievable.
0:07.6	What sort of pulled you into it?
0:10.8	I think what pulls any good investigative journalist into a story about the Vatican
0:15.9	and corruption and money laundering and offshore accounts and possible murder is just that.
0:23.6	This is Gerald Posner, the writer we met in the last episode.
0:28.2	It's a great mix of a story that you follow in an institution that is built on privacy,
0:36.2	doesn't have the word transparency in its language,
0:39.1	and therefore you know there's always something to discover that hasn't been revealed yet,
0:45.2	that will be shocking and hopefully be a big story.
0:50.8	Can you describe the counterfeiting scandal a little bit for us?
0:55.9	So the FBI is investigating these mobsters that they're looking into to try to make a case against them.
1:03.3	For his book, God's Bankers, Posner interviewed a retired FBI agent about an investigation into a made member of the Genovese crime family.
1:11.5	They don't know what they're going to find. You know, it's a great thing if you're following a made member of the Genovese crime family. They don't know what they're going to find.
1:12.9	You know, it's a great thing if you're following a maid member of one of the five
1:15.4	mafia families.
1:16.5	It may be about extortion.
1:17.5	It may be a murder for hire.
1:18.8	It could be something else.
1:19.6	And this time, what the FBI stumbles into is what appears to be a deal with some very
1:25.9	sketchy characters.
1:33.9	Yeah. be a deal with some very sketchy characters. The FBI agent told Posner that in 1972, he flew from New York City to Vienna, Austria,
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