To: Larry Summers
From: Jeffrey Epstein
Sent Thur 2/21/2013 10:26:09 PM
Subject: response to your quesiton last week
The most important change in the Vatican may not be Pope Benedict XVI sudden retirement but
the change in leadership at "the Institute for Works ofReligion," the Vatican's bank. Because of
the Vatican's status as a sovereign country, it is exempt from transparency rules of not only Italy—
but of the European Union. This status allows its elite clients to evade any scrutiny in their
money transfers. Last May. Vatican Bank President Ettore Gotti Tedeschi was fired after Italian
authorities opened an investigation into a far flung bribery scheme in which he was allegedly
involved. Then 47 dossiers, including compromising about "internal enemies" of his in the
Vatican were found in a search of his home. They had instructions how they were used in case
something happened to him. Tcdeschi's intercepted calls futhcr revealed that his concern was that
he would be assassinated because he knoew the Vatican's secrets. By late 2012, he was
cooperating with the ongoing Italian investigation, It was at this point that the all-powerful
College of Cardinals, in one of the last acts in the Benedict papacy, appointed German lawyer
Ernst von Freyberg as President of the bank. The came the extraordinary resignation of Pope
Benedict.
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