{"id":190346,"date":"2009-12-07T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/07\/so-in-addition-to-screwing-with-healthcare-reform-and-covering-up-pedophile-priests\/"},"modified":"2009-12-07T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T04:02:00","slug":"so-in-addition-to-screwing-with-healthcare-reform-and-covering-up-pedophile-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/07\/so-in-addition-to-screwing-with-healthcare-reform-and-covering-up-pedophile-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"So, In Addition to Screwing With Healthcare Reform and  Covering Up Pedophile Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/europe\/article6946507.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&amp;attr=797093\">laundering money<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Vatican Bank is under investigation for alleged involvement in a money-laundering scheme using accounts at one of Italy\u2019s largest banks, according to a weekly investigative magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Panorama reports that officials from the Bank of Italy\u2019s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) have identified transactions worth up to \u20ac180 million (\u00a3160 million) that allegedly violated anti-money-laundering regulations in accounts held at a UniCredit branch in Via della Conciliazione, next to St Peter\u2019s Basilica. Prosecutors in Rome, led by Nello Rossi and Stefano Rocco Fava, are reported to be working with a special unit of the Guardia di Finanza, the Italian tax police, to investigate the bank \u2014 which is formally known as the Institute for Religious Works (IOR).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At this rate, I figure that we will discover that the Catholic Church will be fingered as the malevolent power behind the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bowl_Championship_Series\">Bowl Championship Series (BCS)<\/a> rating system that determines bowl games in NCAA football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church is laundering money: The Vatican Bank is under investigation for alleged involvement in a money-laundering scheme using accounts at one of Italy\u2019s largest banks, according to a weekly investigative magazine. Panorama reports that officials from the Bank of Italy\u2019s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) have identified transactions worth up to \u20ac180 million (\u00a3160 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,972,978,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-justice","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}