Cornwell,R. God's Banker. 1984
Cornwell, Rupert. God's Banker. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1983. 260 pages.
Four books in NameBase describe the 1970s Italian banking scandals:
"Power on Earth" by Nick Tosches, "St.Peter's Banker" by Luigi DiFonzo,
"God's Banker" by Rupert Cornwell, and "The Calvi Affair" by Larry Gurwin.
The first two are about Michele Sindona, the last two about Roberto Calvi.
These scandals involved Sindona, Calvi, Pope Paul VI, Bishop Paul
Marcinkus and the Vatican Bank, the Mafia, Licio Gelli and the P2 Lodge,
Franklin National Bank, Banco Ambrosiano, and shell companies too numerous
to mention. It's a story of international high finance and lavish lifestyles
that Hollywood might reject as unrealistic: bank shares traded like baseball
cards, blood oaths and secret P2 membership lists, Mafia hits, Italian
intelligence agencies, terrorists, arms dealers, corruption at the highest
levels, and even a faked kidnapping.
Sindona's empire was collapsing by 1974, and his protege Calvi's by
1978. In 1980 Sindona was convicted in the U.S. on 65 counts of fraud and
was extradited to Italy in 1984, where two years later he was poisoned in
his cell while serving a life sentence for murder. Calvi was convicted by
an Italian court in 1981 of illegal currency transactions. He was found
hanging from a London bridge the following year, possibly murdered, and
$400 million is still missing.
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