HIST-B 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Second Mafia War, Vito Ciancimino, Salvatore Lima
Document Summary
Said you can"t run the church on hail marys. Major investor in calvi"s bank (with vatican money) worked with sindona and calvi (both had mafia connections) Claimed that he wasn"t trained in finance and he was deceived by sindona and calvi. Purchased share of a bank on long island (laundered mafia heroin money through it) Regarded as a hero until the fraud came to light. Convicted of murder died in prison (cyanide in his coffee) Calvi = milanese banker, moving money for the corleonesi in the 1970s-1980s. Ambrosiano (his bank in milan) gets in financial trouble, loses a lot of $ Flees italy ends up in london hanging from a bridge. First thought to be suicide, then found brick/mortar in his pockets, murder. Ww2 italy starts the war in an alliance with nazi germany. Infrastructure and housing destroyed, parts of palermo have been bombed. Municipal government/palermo government is in charge of who gets the contracts to build.
