The Confessions of Anthony Raimondi

The Ballad of Billy Balls

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🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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In 1978, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his bed just 33 days after he was elected. The official story is that he suffered a fatal heart attack. But in the years since his death, some have claimed he was murdered to cover up crimes in the Vatican. The question of the Pope’s death has never been definitively answered, but there is one man who claims to know the truth. A man from one of New York City’s crime families who has deep ties to the Italian mafia. He was there the day of the Pope’s death and witnessed his murder firsthand. Or, at least, that’s what he says. His name is Anthony Raimondi, and these are his confessions.

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0:00.0	I always like my father says no matter what you do in this world you're going to pay a price.
0:06.0	Anthony Raimundi wants to make peace with God.
0:10.0	I'll probably drop dead of either cancer or heart attack. There's nothing that can do that's going to stop it.
0:16.0	Recent health problems have Anthony reflecting on his 30 years in the Brooklyn mafia.
0:21.0	On the street you got a problem with a guy, the guy gets whack, who gives a shit, you know?
0:25.2	But there's one murder from his past that Anthony Raimundi worries might get him turned away
0:29.8	at the Pearly Gates.
0:32.0	I'm going to go to heaven, God's going to say, now fuck you, you killed one of my popes.
0:37.0	A shocking update here from the Vatican, Pope John Paul I has died.
0:43.8	The youngest pope that died in 400 years.
0:46.5	They said he died of a heart attack,
0:48.4	but he had no heart problems. I'm Mark Smirling, filmmaker and podcaster, but for the past year I felt like a priest taking dizzying
0:58.9	confessions from a brutal mafia enforcer.
1:02.1	They says I want to be like you guys.
1:04.0	My cousin, a Mac pull out of gun, and he put it right to my mouth.
1:07.0	From his baptism into the family business at just 16,
1:11.0	he says, you think you got the boss to do this, just walk up somebody and bought their fucking brains right out,
1:16.0	to committing international stock fraud.
1:19.0	I mean we had fucking two, three or four hundred thousand shares.
1:22.0	A T&T, Coca-Cola, IBM.
1:25.3	With an unlikely partner.
1:27.5	Paul Jacob Marsinkus, this was the head of the Vatican Bank.
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