- The Pope and his advisors had good reason to believe
Chicago was the place to conduct business. The Windy City has the largest
number of Catholic Church parishes of anywhere in America. Under Church
provisions and Illinois law, the Catholic Archbishop of Chicago is a Corporation
Sole. A little-known one-man corporation is not the usual image, however,
of big business. And the Archbishop of Chicago has much more power than
just any Archbishop. He is also the Treasurer for Church funds from the
entire Western Hemisphere. Traditionally, such huge cash flow was deposited
in the Continental Bank of Chicago. For many years, one of the largest
stockholders of the Bank was Walter Cummings, Jr., who was a "man
of trust" for the Church, that is, trusted to secretly handle the
Church assets. And Cummings, also for many years, was the Chief Judge of
the U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, headquartered in Chicago and one
step below the U.S. Supreme Court. As a reality, his Court was the end-of-the-line
for most federal cases from Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana, since the
high court in Washington agrees to consider only a few petitions a year.
[Cummings did NOT disqualify himself in appeals involving his Bank. Guess
who won in his crooked Court?]
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- When Continental Bank collapsed in 1984 [two months after
I accurately publicly predicted it], Judge Cummings used his huge influence
as a Banker-Judge to quietly warn local lawyers not to try to get wealthy
by sueing his bank on behalf of other stockholders, for plainly evident
mismanagement and bank fraud. As exclusively then detailed by me, the Japanese
mafia, the Yakuza, led the "run" on the Bank's holding company
where they had been falsely informed their twenty billion dollars of flight
capital would be in a "bank of deposit". Unlike actual banks,
bank holding companies are not insured "banks of deposit". To
appease the oriental underworld, several divisions of the bank were turned
over to the Yakuza. In later years, Bank of America, reportedly largely
owned by the Yakuza jointly with the Jesuits and the Rothschilds, took
over Continental Bank.
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- For years the Vatican-owned department store chain, Carson
Pirie Scott & Co. had been headquartered in Chicago. And Vatican-owned
Hines Lumber, a giant in its field, was reportedly owned or linked to Vatican
enterprises. Commonwealth Edison, the electric monopoly headquartered in
Chicago, is one of the largest power firms greatly dependent on nuclear
facilities. A government report showed that the Dutch Catholic financial
octopus, Robeco, owned by the Vatican, is one of the largest owners of
Commonwealth Edison. A federal law forbids a foreign power [like the Vatican]
to own nuclear facilities in the U.S. A Chicago researcher who complained
about this had her electric shut off arbitrarily. [Lots of details. Scroll
down our website to "The Electric Scandal".]
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- And the Vatican found comfort in the fact that the Chicago
Board of Trade has been almost all the years controlled by the Irish Catholic
aristocracy jointly with the Vatican's financial partners and advisors,
the Rothschilds. These were people that understood things and took actions
on their own, not as part of the common people. And their acts and doings
are not to be blamed on ordinary Irish Catholics collectively.
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- So the Vatican had good reason to believe they could
succeed in becoming a major competitor in the soybean business in the U.S.,
in a place the Pope thought to be friendly to the Vatican's interests.
What the Vatican and their soybean executives did not know or understand
is the operation of worldwide criminal Marc Rich. Real name Reich, Rich
laundered huge illegal flows of cash masquerading as soybean trading in
Chicago. Clandestine gold deals for the American CIA were disguised by
Rich and his gang as soybean deals, and conversely, soybean trading disguised
as smuggled gold deals.
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- A principal partner to Marc Rich and his pirates has
been the Family of George Herbert Walker Bush---that is, the Elder Bush
and his sons, George W., Jeb, and Neil. As shown by secret Federal Reserve
wire transfer records, the Bush Family laundered the proceeds from worldwide
illegal dealings through a joint account with the Queen of England, through
the Bank owned by the British Monarch, Coutts Bank London. [Visit our website
series, with documents there shown, "Greenspan Aids and Bribes Bush".]
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- Ferruzzi Finanziaria S.p.A., the agro-holding firm was
run by what some called a wizard, Raul Gardini, who had married the daughter
of the firm's founder, Serafino Ferruzzi. Their operation in the U.S. was
called Central Soya Co., of Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and Ferruzzi U.S.A., Inc.,
with principal offices in Louisiana. Those who understood business realized
Ferruzzi was actually owned and supervised by the Vatican Bank, and by
the Vatican Bank Chief, Bishop Paul Marcinkus who originally once ran a
Church in the mafia enclave of Cicero, adjoining Chicago and was the dominant
force in First National Bank of Cicero.
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- The Italian firm was getting bigger and bigger presence
in the soybean markets, the Chicago Board of Trade. Fair and square, following
the exchange rules, Ferruzzi had cornered the market in 1989 when there
was a drought expected. There was a shortage of soybeans. Ferruzzi's main
competitors included Cargill, the highly secretive, privately owned firm,
headquartered in Minnesota. Cargill conducted a great deal of clandestine
business through the U.S./French/Israeli espionage-linked Bank of Credit
and Commerce International, BCCI, interlocked with the secret dirty dealings
of Marc Rich.
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- Another Ferruzzi competitor was Archer-Daniels-Midland,
the highly political firm headquartered in Illinois. A principal of the
firm, Dwayne Andreas, should have gone to prison in the Watergate Affair
for laundering funds for the Nixon Whitehouse. [From 1995, ADM was accused
of price-fixing certain of their items, not soybeans, and their top management
has been found guilty and sentenced to federal prison.] ADM is the sponsor
of several TV Network commentary programs. So the monopoly press tells
us little, if anything, about the crimes of ADM.
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- In view of the circumstances in 1989, Cargill and ADM
in soybean contracts with Ferruzzi had taken a wrong position. To fill
orders, both domestic and foreign, Cargill and ADM would have to come to
terms with Ferruzzi, who bet heavily in opposition to them. The Pope's
firm rightfully could and would push them into default. Under the terms
of the commodity exchange contracts, their failure to make good would mean
that Ferruzzi would own them, since the contracts were in such large amounts.
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- To save themselves, Cargill and ADM reportedly had a
malign influence on the Chicago Board of Trade. The then Chairman of that
commodity exchange, by Emergency Resolution, July 11, 1989, changed the
rules in the middle of the game. Ferruzzi was ordered to drop most of their
position in soybeans.
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- Ferruzzi brought a suit seeking injunction against the
Chicago Board of Trade in Chicago's highly cortrupt Federal District Court.
[Ferruzzi Trading International, et al., vs. Board of Trade of City of
Chicago, No. 89 C 5469.] The case was assigned to Chicago U.S. District
Judge James B. Zagel, a close crony of former Illinois Governor Jim Thompson.
[In November, 1994, on our one-hour public access Cable TV Program, we
demonstrated how "Big Jim" as he is called and his circle are
kingpins in the "China White" high purity heroin smuggling into
Chicago through small suburban airports. In later years, through interviews,
we found out that Zagel through "Big Jim" is reportedly tied
to Marc Rich. Big Jim has been Chairman of the worldwide lawfirm, headquartered
in Chicago, Winston & Strawn. According to our TV Show, they have an
inner secret unit, not actually in the "law business", transacting
smuggling in contraband such as dope. This, through Switzerland, home-base
of Marc Rich.]
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- Disregarding the law and the facts, Judge Zagel was not
about to let Ferruzzi default Cargill and ADM and Ferruzzi end up owning
their business. The Judge, with little fanfare, arbitrarily denied the
injunction. Ferruzzi was forced to dump their contracts and positions on
soybeans. Thousands of farmers were ruined, some bankrupted, some committed
suicide. How did this happen? That at a time of soybean shortages, with
not enough to meet domestic demand and for export, soybean prices collapsed
instead of going up?
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- In the U.S. District Court in Chicago was brought a purported
class action on behalf of angry farmers, American Agriculture Movement,
Inc., et al., vs. Board of Trade of City of Chicago, case No. 89 C 8467.
It was assigned to Chicago Federal District Judge George M. Marovich, a
long-time banker whose bank, South Holland Trust & Savings Bank[in
a Chicago south suburb] was a correspondent bank of Continental Bank of
Chicago, mother ship at the time of the commodity markets and the Chicago
Board of Trade. [Judge George M. Marovich, office (312) 435-5590.]
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- Presidential campaigns are planned four or more years
in advance. Hillary Rodham Clinton was linked to a group of bankers, lawyers,
and others from Fayetteville, Arkansas and elsewhere in that state. The
Chicago Board of Trade was part of a money laundering apparatus, orchestrated
by Marc Rich and his gang, washing illicit funds, such as from dope, for
the 1992 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton. Such as, washing dope money
from the CIA/George Herbert Walker Bush/Ollie North/Bill Clinton operation
through the Mena, Arkansas Airport. Funds transferred through Garfield
Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago, a principal owner of which has been
defrocked, ex-convict Congressman Dan Rostenkowski. From there the funds
were sent through the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
with the connivance of Marc Rich, disguised as soybean dealings.
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- As a result of investigating the foregoing for my weekly
one-hour television show, I and an associate of mine, Joseph Andreuccetti,
were placed on Hillary Rodham Clinton's "enemies list" to be
arbitrarily hounded and harassed by her Gestapo---doing dirty tricks to
try to stop us. We detailed a number of these illegal things happening
to us as a result of being on her "enemies list". The undisputed
details are a matter of court record in Sherman H. Skolnick and Joseph
Andreuccetti, plaintiffs, versus Hillary Rodham Clinton et al., defendants,
case No. 96 C 4373, U.S. District Court in Chicago, assigned to the selfsame
Judge George M. Marovich. Here are some excerpts from the undisputed court
records:
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- * "that the financial interests of defendant Hillary
Rodham Clinton, and her law partner, Vincent W. Foster, Jr., were interwoven
with certain lawyers, bankers, and agents, representatives, and investigators
from Fayetteville, Arkansas and elsewhere".
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- * "On December 1, 1991, defendant [Hillary Rodham]
Clinton, in conjunction with her business partner, Vincent W. Foster,
Jr., by and through bankers, lawyers, and representatives, agents, and
investigators, sought and obtained a meeting with plaintiff Skolnick. Said
group from Fayetteville, Arkansas and elsewhere in Arkansas, and other
places...Skolnick was informed that said group had a financial interest
in the billions of dollars of transactions in a class action in the federal
courts in Chicago, entitled American Agriculture Movement, Inc., et al.,plaintiffs
vs. Board of Trade of City of Chicago, et al., defendants, No. 89 C 8467,
in the U.S. District Court....At a later date, Skolnick became aware that
said transactions were part of a massive, illicit enterprise, laundering
dope funds such as from Mena, Arkansas, to raise funds for the 1992 Presidential
election campaign of Bill clinton, in which defendant Clinton played a
key role along with Vincent W. Foster, Jr and defendant Amy Zisook, chief
fund-raiser for the '92 campaign."
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of said group showed that the presiding judge in said litigation, U.S.
District Judge George M. Marovich, was acting in a corrupt manner and under
a malign influence, to favor the defendants therein, including the Chicago
Board of Trade."
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that corrupt federal commodity regulators, such as the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, permitted and condoned this corruption including the
Chicago Board of Trade and their officials in a position to work a malign
and corrupt influence on George M. Marovich as banker and judge. The following
colloguy took place:
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- Question by Skolnick: Do you wish to 'go public' with
this, to finger Judge George M. Marovich, such as being guests on my show?
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- Answer: Not just yet.
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- Question by Skolnick: Or do you wish to strong-arm and
blackmail Judge Marovich for your own financial advantage?
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- "By said acts and doings, by and through said group,
defendant Clinton and Foster mis-used plaintiff Skolnick, an electronic
journalist and court reformer; for defendant to blackmail Judge Marovich,
to gain a financial advantage and to cover up the defendant's massive illicit
transactions through the Chicago markets and massive tax evasion; and for
the purposes of defendant covering up the related matters of the 50 million
dollar transfer referred to herein"..."Said group acknowledged
and confirmed to Skolnick that Judge Marovich, individually and through
persons financially associated with him and through banks acting in conjunction
with him and them, speculates in the commodity markets in the selfsame
commodities in said litigation."
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- The undisputed federal court records detail a meeting
with the other side of the soybean litigation pending before Judge Marovich:
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and obtained, a meeting with Skolnick and Andreuccetti. SAID MEETING INCLUDED
A DIRECTOR OF THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE AND PRINCIPALS OF TWO TRADING
MEMBER FIRMS. They informed plaintiffs [Skolnick and Andreuccetti] they
were undecided whether they wanted to appear as guests on Skolnick's public
access Cable TV Program 'Broadsides', in which Andreuccetti assists in
the production and distribution. During the meeting, the following took
place, with Skolnick asking the questions, Andreuccetti observing, and
a director of the Chicago Board of Trade answering:
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- Question: In the case against you, American Agriculture
Movement, Inc. versus The Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, is it
true Judge Marovich was somehow corrupted?
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- Answer: Yes, it cost us 62 million dollars between the
Judge and those in the appeals court.
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- Meaning to be understood by said director and was so
understood by plaintiffs that it included Judge James B. Zagel and Joel
M. Flaum among others....Thereupon, a trading firm member principal reached
across the table and said to the director of the Chicago Board of Trade:
You shouldn't be telling him (pointing to Skolnick). Whereupon the Chicago
Board of Trade director answered: Answer: I am telling him (meaning Skolnick)
because he probably already knows and it is bound to come out and we're
all going to be blackened. You (referring to the principal of the trading
firm member) know we had to do it.
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- Further question by Skolnick: Are you confirming you
paid off the judges, including Judge Marovich?
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- Answer: Yes.
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- Meaning to be understood by the director and so underestood
by plaintiffs that the bribery included Judges Zagel, Flaum, Ripple, and
Eschbach. At a later date, Skolnick found out that said group at said meeting
used the happening of the meeting to blackmail a financial advantage of
CFTC and Marovich." (Emphasis added.)
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- Note: by the year 2001, Judge Marovich has become a Senior
District Judge. Judge Zagel still sits in the U.S. District Court. Ripple
is still a judge on the Federal Appeals Court where Judge Flaum has become
the Chief Judge. Eschbach is no longer there.
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- Further excerpts from the undisputed federal court records
in case No. 96 C 4373:
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- "Whereupon, in July, 1993, defendant Clinton, by
and through directors and officials of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
sought and obtained a series of meetings with Skolnick and Andreuccetti,
as follows: On July 14, 1993, in the presence of those officials and directors,
and an Exchange security official, Andreuccetti pushing Skolnick in his
wheelchair, plaintiffs were escorted around the entire floor of the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange, during a trading session. Skolnick was told that this
was the first time a person in a wheelchair was on such a tour. Many of
the Exchange's employes stopped their activities when Skolnick was rolled
past, and asked Skolnick and Andreuccetti, 'Are you investigating us' and
followed by 'we watch your show'. Skolnick simply smiled and responded,
'I am enjoying the tour.'
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and officials of the Exchange in a snack shop. Skolnick was told: There
is no basis to you investigating and raising questions about the Merc and
the First Lady and her associates (meaning Vincent W. Foster, Jr., the
then newly appointed Clinton White House deputy counsel.) There is no basis
to it. Everything's out in the open here. Skolnick, in the presence of
Andreuccetti,simply smiled and responded, 'I am enjoying the tour.' Whereupon
there followed a luncheon with the Merc's directors at a nearby restaurant.
Substantially the same dialogue took place at said meeting also. Some six
days later, Foster was found mysteriously dead, some say murdered."
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- Note: compare the July 14, 1993 date with the July, 1993
dates in our website story, "Marc Rich and Others, Fingered by a Letter"
detailing the tie-in between Foster and Marc Rich and a failed attempt
by then FBI Director William Sessions to have Rich grabbed on the Swiss-French
border.
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- More excerpts from the undisputed federal court records
in No. 96 C 4373:
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- * "that Assistant U.S. Attorney William R. Hogan,
Jr., was, in effect, the representative in the U.S. Attorney's office in
Chicago of (1) the office of Catholic Archbishop of Chicago; (2) The Vatican
Bank and Bishop Paul Marcinkus who was Vatican Bank chief up to November,
1991; (3) The Pope. Marcinkus' nephew/godson, Christian Henning, Jr., by
falsely claiming to be Joseph Andreuccetti's business partner, caused Andreuccetti
to be defrauded of many millions of dollars as hereinafter stated....Yet,
at a time of soybean shortage, because of this corruption, soybean prices
went down when they should have gone up. The result of the corruption:
thousands of soybean farmers were ruined, some bankrupted. Another result
of the judicial corruption: Ferruzzi lost upwards of a billion dollars
and the chief of their holding firm, Raul Gardini, who had married into
the Ferruzzi family, and was considered a wizard, committed suicide, July,
1993."
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- [Later interviews with the Ferruzzi Family, Milan, Italy,
show that Gardini was, in fact, murdered, about the same time as the apparent
murder of Vincent W. Foster, Jr. Other interviews support our position
that Marc Rich reportedly arranged not only for the bribery of the Chicago
federal judges, the largest judicial bribery mess in U.S. history, but
the apparent arrangement to murder Ferruzzi chief Raul Gardini in the same
time period as Foster.]
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benefit of defendant Hillary Rodham Clinton, who along with her business
partner Vincent W. Foster, Jr., had massive interest, the Clinton Justice
Department torpedoed Ferruzzi's informal representative in the U.S., William
R. Hogan, Jr., an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago. Hogan, the lead prosecutor
in a group of cases against the El Rukns, a narco-terrorist street gang
in Chicago,, was accused by the Justice Department of alleged misconduct
in the El Rukn cases in 1993 and put on administrative leave. Hogan countered
that the Justice Department knows full well, but takes no action, that
six federal judges in Chicago are corrupt and take bribes, including Chief
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John D. Schwartz."
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bankruptcy for fourteen years as part of a scheme to cover up the disappearance
of 50 million dollars belonging to Andreuccetti, secretly transferred to
Little Rock, in an attempt to cover up a 47 million dollar Savings &
Loan embezzlement, for which Bill and Hillary Clinton are subject to federal
criminal prosecution and jailing.Hillary's family crony, John E. Gierum,
who supervised the 50 million dollar illegal transfer, was one of the defendants
in the "enemies list" case.]
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- Using inside details he knew that his bosses at the Justice
Department knew about but took no action, Hogan was, using apparent blackmail,
restored to his job with backpay. He knew about the bribery of the federal
judges in order to ruin the Pope's soybean business, Ferruzzi. He knew
about the role of Marc Rich in the bribery of the federal judges to stop
the Vatican from competing in the soybean markets with ADM and Cargill.
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- Disregarding the law and the facts, Judge George M. Marovich
refused to hear the "enemies list" case against Hillary Rodham
Clinton, and others. The judge cited a ridiculous reason, that there were
too many facts, dates, and details for him to consider. Hillary's attorneys
were in a position to blackmail Judge Marovich not only on the bribery
of the judge in the soybean case involving Ferruzzi as well, but also based
on the Judge's mandatory annual financial disclosure report which shows
Judge Marovich owns a west suburban shopping center, Cermak Plaza, near
First National Bank of Cicero. Our investigation showed the IRS and State
Revenue top officials are silent partners in the shopping center and various
gangster enterprises use the shopping center as a way to launder illicit
funds. The top revenue officials assist the gangsters to evade taxes. Also
note: Congressman Henry Hyde escaped a federal agency judgment against
him for causing the downfall of a suburban S & L of which Hyde had
been a director. Hyde headed the House Judiciary Committee with power to
impeach judges. Hyde was in a position to know about Judge Marovich and
the gangster-top government officials-Judge Marovich shopping center. You
guessed it---Judge Marovich had the case against Henry Hyde and turned
him loose.
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- So, Marc Rich, using bribery and murder, destroyed the
Pope's soybean business in America. And Marc Rich was enabled to do this
with the connivance of some in the soybean markets, the Justice Department,
and the American CIA, and others. The Vatican lost billions of dollars.
And a French firm took over Central Soya, a Ferruzzi enterprise, and reportedly
shared the business with the Riady Family, ethnic Chinese, who owned the
tiny First National Bank of Mena, Arkansas, a transit point for hundreds
of millions of dollars shuttled up to the Chicago markets disguised as
soybean dealings.
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- In the "enemies list" dismissal by Judge Marovich,
we took an appeal which, of course, ended in the U.S. Court of Appeals
in Chicago, with the same judges who were bribed to destroy Ferruzzi. Although
we had a statutory right to have our appeal heard, the judges refused to
consider our appeal, sent back our briefs in a box, and entered an illegal
and poisonous ruling: that I and my TV associate, Joseph Andreuccetti are
barred from being in any federal court in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused our petition to remedy this outrage.
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- To justify these terrible things inflicted on the Vatican
and Ferruzzi, what supposed "crime" did the Pope commit? That
the Vatican, fair and square, wanted to be a major player in soybean trading
in the U.S.? In America, and certainly in large cities like New York, Chicago,
and Los Angeles, there is a non-statutory offense, that is an unwritten
crime. It is called simply "failure to bribe". Of this the Pontiff
certainly was "guilty". More coming on the Ferruzzi Affair.
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