Overview
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With a round, open face and a penchant for tall tales, Matteo de Lorenzo resembled everyoneās kindly uncle. But Uncle Marty, as he was known throughout the Genovese crime family, was one of the New York mobās top earners throughout the 1960s and ā70s, the mastermind of a billion-dollar trade in stolen and counterfeit securities.
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In the spring of 1972, de Lorenzo and his shrewd and ruthless business partner, Vincent Rizzo, traveled to Europe to discuss a plan to launder millions of dollars worth of phony securities. Shockingly, the plot involved Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the scandal-plagued president of the Vatican Bank. Unbeknownst to de Lorenzo and Rizzo, however, the NYPD was already on the caseāthanks to the crusading work of Det. Joseph Coffey.
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Coffey, the legendary New York policeman who investigated the Lufthansa heist and took the Son of Samās confession, first learned of the scheme in a wiretap related to the attempted mob takeover of the Playboy Club in Manhattan. From those unlikely beginnings, Detective Coffey worked tirelessly to trace the fraudulent stocks and bonds around the world and deep into the corridors of power in Washington, DC, and Rome.
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Meticulously researched and relentlessly gripping, The Vatican Connection is a true story of corruption and deceit, packed with āall the ingredients of a thrillerā (San Francisco Chronicle).
This book title, The Vatican Connection (The True Story of a Billion-Dollar Conspiracy Between the Catholic Church and the Mafia), ISBN: 9781504049382, by Richard Hammer, published by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (February 6, 2018) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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