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. Â 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. Â 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. Â 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. Â 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).
General
| Imprint: |
Open Road Media
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
March 2018 |
| Authors: |
Richard Hammer
|
| Dimensions: |
203 x 133 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
380 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5040-4938-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-5040-4938-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781504049382 |
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