Anthony Raimondi told a very similar story. The 71-year-old American recently released his autobiography When the Bullet Hits the Bone and gave an interview to The New York Post. In it, he claims that his uncle was Lucky Luciano, the founder of the so-called National Syndicate (the idea belongs to another mafia, Johnny Torrio). This group included the bosses of New York’s most important gangster families: Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Colombo and Bonanno.
Raimondi was supposed to learn mafia craft from the Pole Meyer Lansky, a friend of his uncle.. Lansky was behind the mafia’s biggest scams, building casinos from which the bosses made legal profits, and successfully defrauding the US tax office.
Who was Cardinal Paul Marcinkus?
Raimondi claims that his cousin was Cardinal Paul Marcinkus, president of the Vatican Bank. In the early 1970s, the clergyman was heard about the supply of counterfeit bonds worth more than $14 million to the Vatican.
Maricinkus was also implicated in the Banco Ambrosiano financial scandal, in which the Vatican Bank was a major shareholder. This institution was unable to explain the impact of more than a billion dollars, so it was suspected that its president, Roberto Calvi, was laundering mafia money. He committed suicide shortly after the scandal was exposed in 1982, but many believe the mob killed him. Adding to the piquancy is the fact that his secretary jumped out of a window on the same day.
Marcinkus has never been charged with any crime. However, in 1990 he left his position and left for the United States. He lived to the end of his days as an assistant parish priest. He died in 2006.
Pope John Paul I was given cyanide?
Raimondi claims that Marcinkus played a key role in the death of Albino Luciani, or Paul I, who only held the pontificate for 33 days and died on September 28, 1978. The former mobster claims that he was sent to the Vatican to observe the customs of the pope and he saw with his own eyes how Cardinal Marcinkus prepared tea with Valium for the head of the church.
When the Pope fell asleep, Marcinkus had to drop potassium cyanide into his mouth. “I was standing in the hallway in front of the Pope’s chamber as tea was being served,” he says in his book, adding that “although he did a lot in his life, he didn’t want to be alone when they killed the Pope.” “I knew it would buy me a ticket straight to hell,” he said.
Did they also want to kill Karol Wojtyla?
After the sleeping John Paul I was allegedly given poison, his assistant tested it and then shouted that “The Pope is dying.” Moments later, Marcinkus and two other cardinals burst into the room, “as if it was a great surprise to them.” The Vatican doctor ruled that the church hierarch died of a heart attack.
Raimondi explained that Marcinkus wanted his cousin to be present and that after his death, he would testify to God that the Pope was unharmed. He claimed that John Paul I was assassinated because he wanted to expose a financial scandal involving the Vatican Bank and Marcinkus himself. The institution was supposed to issue false bonds, which were resold by mafia sellers to unsuspecting customers.
Karol Wojtyla, who was elected as the new pope, found out about the violations later. Since he “seemed ready to take action against the swindlers as well”, he was also to be killed. John Paul II knew about this, so he decided to remain silent, says Raimondi.
(Source: New York Post)
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John Paul I with Karol Wojtyla.
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John Paul I died on September 28, 1978.
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“You were a prophet, but my reign will be short,” he told Cardinal Jaime Sin when he paid his respects to him shortly after the conclave.
Anthony Raimondi wrote an autobiography describing the alleged assassination of John Paul I.
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The words of the former mafia are not confirmed by any investigation.
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Albino Luciani was Pope from August 26 to September 28, 1978.
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Paul Marcinkus was implicated in a financial scandal
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