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100 1  Hammer, Richard,|d1928- 
245 14 The Vatican Connection :|bThe True Story of a Billion-
       Dollar Conspiracy Between the Catholic Church and the 
       Mafia /|cRichard Hammer. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bOpen Road Media,
       |c[2016] 
264  4 |c©2016 
300    1 online resource (338 pages) 
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506    Access limited to subscribing institutions. 
520    Winner of the Edgar Award: The riveting account of an 
       audacious fraud scheme that stretched from a Mafia hangout
       on the Lower East Side to the Vatican. With a round, open 
       face and a penchant for tall tales, Matteo de Lorenzo 
       resembled everyone’s kindly uncle. But Uncle Marty, as he 
       was known throughout the Genovese crime family, was one of
       the New York mob’s top earners throughout the 1960s and 
       ’70s, the mastermind of a billion-dollar trade in stolen 
       and counterfeit securities. 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 case—thanks to the crusading work of Det. 
       Joseph Coffey. Coffey, the legendary New York policeman 
       who investigated the Lufthansa heist and took the Son of 
       Sam’s 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. Meticulously researched
       and relentlessly gripping, The Vatican Connection is a 
       true story of corruption and deceit, packed with “all the
       ingredients of a thriller” ( San Francisco Chronicle ). 
538    System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. 
588 0  Print version record. 
600 10 Coffey, Joseph J. 
610 20 Catholic Church.|bCuria Romana|xCorrupt practices. 
650  0 Mafia. 
650  0 Counterfeits and counterfeiting. 
650  0 Securities theft. 
650  0 Swindlers and swindling. 
650  7 TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime.|2bisacsh 
655  0 Electronic books. 
700 1  Coffey, Joseph J. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aHammer, Richard, 1928-|tVatican 
       connection.|dNew York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1982.
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