HEAR NO EVIL, SEE NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL, ABOUT THE VATICAN THAT IS!

How can a court case that involves mass murder go virtually unreported by MSM. MSM is an abbreviation for Main Stream Media in case anyone is unaware.

Court case in the USA. Alpernin versus Vatican Bank

Alperin v. Vatican Bank was originally filed in Federal Court in San Francisco in November 1999. The plaintiffs are concentration camp survivors of Serb, Jewish, and Ukrainian background and their relatives as well as organizations representing over 500,000 Holocaust victims. The plaintiffs seek an accounting and restitution of the Nazi Croatian Treasury that according to the US State Department was illicitly transferred to the Vatican Bank, the Franciscan Order and other banks after the end of the war. Defendants currently include the Vatican Bank and Franciscan Order.


These defendants combined to conceal assets looted by the Croatian Nazis from concentration camp victims, Serbs, Jews, Roma and others between 1941-1945. Levy v. CIA was a lawsuit filed under the Freedom of Information Act seeking release of US Intelligence agency files regarding the notorius Vatican spymaster, Fr. Krunoslav Draganovic. New records on Draganovic were released as a result of the successful conclusion of that lawsuit in 2001 in favor of Levy, clearly showing Vatican ties to U.S. intelligence officers and the Nazi Party. -----------------------------Sex, Fraud, Money Laundering: All Roads lead to RomeAttorneys in the Vatican Bank lawsuit (Alperin v. Vatican Bank) seeking restitution of Nazi loot laundered through the Vatican Bank after World War II have asked the United States District Court in San Francisco to coordinate all pending lawsuits against the Vatican.


This includes another WWII era lawsuit against the Vatican Bank, three sex abuse cases filed in Missouri, Oregon, and Florida alleging a Vatican cover up of pedophile priests and a $600 million dollar RICO (Anti Racketeering) lawsuit filed by five state insurance commissioners for insurance fraud aided and abetted by top Vatican officials in conspiracy with convicted swindler, Martin Frankel. According to plaintiffs’ attorneys Jonathan Levy and Tom Easton, the threshold issue in all these cases is whether the Vatican, which is the world’s smallest country, can continue to hide behind sovereign immunity for criminal acts committed by its financiers and officials. Sovereign immunity is a legal doctrine that permits the Vatican to avoid civil lawsuits in the United States. Easton and Levy expect the US State Department will sooner or later weigh in on the issue of Vatican immunity and when it does, it makes more sense that all the cases are coordinated. Furthermore according to the attorneys, the RICO lawsuit involves issues of fact, which contradict pleadings already on file in the Vatican Bank cases.


In the Vatican Bank cases, the Vatican Bank’s Italian attorney asserted the bank’s “fundamental purpose is to promote pious acts.” On the other hand the RICO lawsuit filed by the state insurance commissioners alleges top Vatican officials including the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Sodano, were involved in a massive insurance fraud and money-laundering scheme with Martin Frankel utilizing the Vatican Bank and the Vatican itself as a front for their illegal activities. “Americans have not yet put together all the pieces, ” said Levy, “they need to know the Vatican is being used as a haven for crooks, pedophiles, and financial corruption.


By combining these cases temporarily and forcing the issue of Vatican immunity we are actually helping the honest clergy who are trying to clean up an appalling situation.” But, the Vatican faces another legal time bomb that has been quietly wending its way through the federal court system since November 1999 and may be just as financially devastating. In November 1999, Ukrainian Holocaust survivors later joined by Serb and Jewish plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit against the Vatican Bank, alleging complicity in the laundering of Nazi World War II loot including the proceeds of genocide from several Croatian run concentration camps where upwards of 500,000 Serbs were liquidated between 1941 and 1945.The Vatican Bank has claimed sovereign immunity to the lawsuit declaring that it is an arm of the Holy See. However, the lawsuit persists and the thorny question of whether a US Court can hear a lawsuit against a Vatican organization remains unresolved. Plaintiffs’ attorneys claim immunity is not available for the Vatican Bank which is no stranger to scandal; Federal Judge Maxine Chesney has yet to rule on the case.Jonathan Levy, one of plaintiffs’ counsels, suggests the Vatican is particularly vulnerable to legal process since it is both a Church and a quasi state, but has only enjoyed United States recognition since 1983 as a sovereign entity. Levy said, “Many of the Vatican’s activities fall outside the traditional actions of a state, particularly when it comes to financing the Church.

In the case of the pedophilia cover up, a Vatican policy of protecting guilty priests violates customary international law as well as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.” The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has been ratified by over 190 nations including the Holy See and expressly prohibits sexual exploitation of children. According to Levy, “Some in the Vatican feel they are above temporal laws, there is a parallel here, after World War II the Church assisted Nazi war criminals and helped them escape justice, now it is pedophile priests who have escaped punishment with help from Rome. In my opinion these are the actions of a rogue state and subject to full legal process in our courts.”

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