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Former Vatican Auditor General Sues Holy See for Nearly $10 Million, Threatens to Reveal Financial Corruption
LifeSite News ^ | 11/11/22 | Louis Knuffke

Posted on 11/17/2022 6:32:32 PM PST by marshmallow

I was discovering things that somebody wanted to keep undercover,” Libero Milone said to journalists in Rome on Tuesday. 'All these matters were reported to the Pope. I wasn’t spying. I was doing my job.'

VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The former Auditor General for the Vatican has taken the Secretariat of State to court for nearly $10 million in damages due to his forced resignation in 2017, and threatened to reveal evidence of the financial and moral corruption within the Holy See that his audit had uncovered. 

Libero Milone, former chairman and CEO of Deloitte Italy, a multinational auditing and consultancy firm – who was appointed Auditor General of the Holy See in 2015 – together with his deputy, Ferruccio Panicco, an ex-chief auditor for the Italian manufacturer Indesit, filed a 53-page lawsuit on November 4 against the Secretariat of State in the amount of $9.25 million to “obtain proper reparations from suffered damages” consequent upon their unjust dismissal in 2017.  

The lawsuit accuses the Holy See of a “breach of contract, damage to reputation and moral damage to us and our families.”  The dismissal, Milone argued, was in violation of a 5-year contract with the Holy See and has resulted in reputational and career damage for Milone, since in justification of the dismissal the Vatican accused the men of spying and embezzlement. The dismissal has also resulted in medical damages for Panicco, some of whose medical records have been withheld since 2017 by Vatican officials despite the former suffering pancreatic cancer, needing urgent medical attention and treatment.

The accusations of spying and embezzlement were leveled in June of 2017 by Cardinal Angelo Becciu – at the time, second in charge of the Secretariate of State – with the Vatican claiming that it had conducted a......

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1 posted on 11/17/2022 6:32:32 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

The headline says someone is being extorted.


2 posted on 11/17/2022 6:39:06 PM PST by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: marshmallow
What's the over/under on when the Vatican is connected to the FTX scandal ?

Asking for a friend.

3 posted on 11/17/2022 6:43:19 PM PST by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
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To: marshmallow
Former Vatican Auditor General Sues Holy See for Nearly $10 Million, Threatens to Reveal Financial Corruption

Good! Reveal it.

4 posted on 11/17/2022 6:48:09 PM PST by ebb tide (Where are the good fruits of the Second Vatican Council? Anyone?)
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To: marshmallow

And I hope that nobody is under the impression that all the gold that supposed to be in Fort Knox is still there.


5 posted on 11/17/2022 6:59:47 PM PST by ryderann
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To: SecondAmendment

“What’s the over/under on when the Vatican is connected to the FTX scandal ?”

Pretty good odds, I’d say, since there is a perverted sexual component to the FTX scandal.


6 posted on 11/17/2022 8:01:27 PM PST by Ken Regis
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