10/14/04
VATICAN
SOVEREIGNTY FACES COURT CHALLENGES
Attorney Jonathan Levy sent us the following
press release:
http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200410/1097349913.html
For Two Millennia Vatican has Endured Invasions and Sieges but US Legal
Cases May Hasten Its Demise
For_Immediate_Release:
Two Federal Court cases continue their efforts to hold the
financially accountable for criminal acts committed by the Vatican Bank.
Alperin v. Vatican Bank, was filed in November 1999 by Serb, Jewish, and
Ukrainian Holocaust survivors against the Vatican Bank, Franciscan order,
and Croatian Liberation Movement. The class action lawsuit accuses the
Vatican Bank of receiving hundreds of millions of dollars of gold and other
assets looted from victims of
1941-1945. As many as 700,000 people, most of them Serbs, were exterminated
at death camps run by the Nazi-allied government of
The case was dismissed in 2003 after the
political one and not appropriate for
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard legal arguments by Plaintiffs'
attorneys on October 7, 2004 that the case should be reversed and sent back
to the trial court for further proceedings.
Dale v. Colagiavanni arose out of a bold scheme by Martin Frankel to
misappropriate the assets of several insurance companies totaling hundreds
of millions of dollars through fraudulent means which included an account at
the Vatican Bank. On September 27, 2004, the United States District Court
for Southern Mississippi denied a
According to Alperin attorneys, Tom Easton and Jonathan Levy, between the
two cases, Vatican liability may top $1 billion dollars. But according to
the two attorneys who started the current round of lawsuits against the
Vatican in 1999, it is being held accountable in
not the ultimate amounts involved may prove the most daunting issue for the
the Holy See's very existence.
(Note: The article above underscores
why the Vatican sees the US as a real threat, even though both parties stand in
opposition to the true Biblical Protestant faith. This is a case where God is using one wicked party to punish the
other wicked party, even as the ancient Medo-Persian empire punished the
Babylonian empire. At the same time as
these lawsuits are occurring in US courts against the Vatican, the Vatican is
drumming up antagonism against the US in many foreign countries.)