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Confession to the Jesuits No. 28:
Alperin
v. Vatican Bank
Shows Vatican Involvement in Genocide
But most
astonishing in recent federal hearings in the Alperin case,
attorneys for the Serbian and Jewish genocide survivors are
outraged that the Vatican Bank suggests that genocide and
plunder are permissible acts under international law.
By Greg Szymanski, JD
May 12, 2007
Hidden court
documents prove the Vatican through its Jesuit Order
henchmen organized the hit team to kill President Abraham
Lincoln.
New York police detectives have documented
that the pedophile rings ravaging American children were
orchestrated by former New York Cardinal Spellman with
full knowledge and complicity of the Vatican
hierarchy.
Further, police documentation shows without
question New York County District Attorney, Robert Morris
Morgenthau, has covered up for Spellman, Cardinal Egan and
other higher ups in the U.S. government, as the dirty
cover-up trail leads all the way to the doorstep of the
White House.
The
cover-up, according to investigators, includes knowledge and
complicity of the Bush family and one of its minions, Karl
Rove, known as Miss Piggy in the Washington D.C. gay-bar
circles.
Besides all the Vatican connections to the
destruction listed above, there is much, much more,
including the murder of Pope John Paul I for trying to
clean-up the Vatican Bank and the pedophile rings in
America.
Further, court documents in the case of
Alperin v, Vatican Bank now pending in a San Francisco
federal court show how The Vatican Bank stands accused of
the post war laundering of the profits of genocide - including
dental gold taken from the victims of the Nazi backed
Croatian regime known as the Ustasha.
The case also
has provided evidence of the Vatican connections and
backing of Hitler and the Nazi Party with help from
American intelligence officers in Rome.
But most
astonishing in recent federal hearings in the Alperin case,
attorneys for the Croatian genocide survivors are outraged
that the Vatican Bank suggests that genocide and plunder
are permissible acts under international law.
"On
the one hand the Vatican is quick to condemn Israel and Serbia
in recent years but in essence says its OK to butcher
500,000 people, steal their belongings and stash it in the
Vatican Bank," said Jonathan Levy, one of the attorneys
for the genocide survivors. "Pope Benedict should be
concerned that the moral integrity of his Papacy is being
undermined in a Federal Court."
However, with all
the hard evidence pinning to the wall the Vatican and
Jesuit Order's assault on the free world, including
America, it remains a mystery how the U.S. government and
all factions of the media ignore the hard facts.
In
fact, it appears every last Congressman and Senator and all
factions of the mainstream and most of the alternative are
involved in the cover-up up to their dirty
necks.
And in this Confession to the Jesuits No. 28, we
present just a small portion of the evidence in the
Alperin case, showing how the Vatican has been complicit
with the genocide of more than 800,000 Serbs and Jews in
an ethnic cleansing campaign.
What Americans need
to consider is that if the Vatican was involved in the
genocide of the Serbs and Jews, what is stopping them from
doing the same thing here?
Here is a portion of the
Alperin evidence as compiled by attorney
Levy:
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 Rome
Attorneys 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.”
Vatican Lawyers Claim Nazi Regime Violated No Law in Genocide of 500,000 Serbs, Jews, & Roma
San Francisco:
Lawyers for the Vatican Bank including Pope Benedict's
personal attorney have argued that genocide committed in
Croatia during the Second World War by a Nazi regime was
permissible under international law.
In the ongoing
lawsuit Alperin v. Vatican Bank, the Vatican Bank has
filed a motion set for hearing in November that argues in
part that the Vatican Bank is immune because the Nazi
backed Croatian regime did not violate international law
by slaughtering 500,000 of its own citizens - Serbs, Jews,
and Roma in an ethnic cleansing campaign.
The Vatican
Bank stands accused of the post war laundering of the profits
of genocide - including dental gold taken from the victims
of the Nazi backed Croatian regime known as the
Ustasha.
Attorneys for the Holocaust survivors are
outraged that the Vatican Bank suggests that genocide and
plunder are permissible acts under international law.
Jonathan Levy, one of the attorneys for the Holocaust
survivors, questions whether the Pope is even aware of
what the bank's attorneys are proposing: "On the one hand
the Vatican is quick to condemn Israel and Serbia in
recent years but in essence says its OK to butcher 500,000
people, steal their belongings and stash it in the Vatican
Bank. Pope Benedict should be concerned that the moral
integrity of his Papacy is being undermined in a Federal
Court."
The lawsuit has been ongoing since 1999 and
despite growing evidence of
the Vatican Bank's complicity
in criminal acts has been resisted
tenaciously by the
Vatican
Bank.
Pius XII – The Tainted Saint
While the debate about proposed sainthood for Pius XII rages between the Vatican and its
critics, a lawsuit pending since 1999 against the Vatican Bank and its ultimate disposition may prove the case for
or against Pius.
The pending lawsuit, Alperin v.
Vatican Bank (USDC ND CA No. C99-4941), filed in federal
court in San Francisco and backed by a coalition of
Serbian, Jewish, Roma and Ukrainian individuals and
organizations seeks compensation for Axis plunder from
Yugoslavia laundered through the Vatican Bank in 1946,
well after the atrocities of the Second World War were
revealed in full.
The funds in question were the
proceeds of genocide by the Ustasha, Nazi allied Croatian
forces, who murdered over 500,000 Jews, Serbs, and Roma in
former Yugoslavia 1941-1945 and plundered their possessions.
In addition to the money and gold in question, the Vatican
also sheltered the top Ustasha leadership including wanted
war criminals.
So far, testimony in the Alperin case by
a former US Army counterintelligence agent, William Gowen,
who investigated the Ustasha in Rome in 1947 for the US
Army, has stopped short of directly implicating Pius,
instead pointing to Montini, Pius’ Undersecretary of State,
who later became Pope Paul VI. According to the witness, a
top Vatican official tasked with overseeing Croatian
affairs in Rome, Monsignor Draganovic, who reported
directly to Montini, admitted being the mastermind behind
the smuggling and deposit of the Ustasha “treasure” at the
Vatican bank.
To date, the Vatican attorneys have
taken a hard line with the case, insisting that the
Vatican Bank’s money laundering scheme for Axis plunder
violated no international law since the Ustasha’s victims,
mainly Orthodox Christian Serbs, were technically citizens
of “Independent” Croatia. The unrepentant tone of the
Vatican bodes poorly for Pius XII and the current
controversy involving his elevation to sainthood.
While Jewish organizations like The Anti-Defamation League have concentrated on Pius’ wartime record,
the Vatican’s sheltering of the perpetrators of genocide and their funds after the Second World War may be
even more significant.
About the Attorneys fighting the Vatican
Dr. Jonathan Levy is licensed in California and the District of Columbia and has represented
organizations and individuals in a variety of Holocaust and Second World War related lawsuits including
banking, insurance, and slave labor matters. Jon is also a member of the International Criminal Bar
in The Hague and has a PhD in Political Science.
Tom Easton is a veteran California civil rights attorney. Tom has traveled extensively in Russia
and Europe and holds a Masters degree in History.
Windle Turley is a nationally recognized plaintiffs' attorney and is responsible for the first
multi million dollar jury verdict against a Roman Catholic Diocese for sexual abuse of children in 1998.
About the Writer
Dr. Greg Szymanski has a law degree and has been a journalist since 1976. He left the mainstream media in
disgust over censorship and feels the same way about most of the alternative media. He will sitting for
the California Bar later this year and plans to practice law as well as continue his radio and journalism work.
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