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47. Samuel J. Gerdano, “Diocesan Bankruptcies: A Feast for Lawyers,” The Edge, December 12, 2004, www.catholicexchange.com.
48. Affidavit of Nicholas P. Cafardi, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Washington, case no. 04-08822, The Catholic Bishop of Spokane Debtor, Committee of Tort Litigants v. The Catholic Bishop of Spokane, et al., May 27, 2005, p. 16.
49. “Bankruptcy: The Gamble That Backfired,” National Catholic Reporter, September 9, 2005.
50. Christine Tolfree, “VOTF Mass in Response to Church Closings,” The Pilot (Boston archdiocesan newspaper), August 23, 2004.
51. State Representative James M. Murphy, “An Argument Against Closing a Church in Weymouth,” letters, Boston Globe, May 13, 2004.
52. Denise Leavoie, “Parishioners Refuse to Leave Church Scheduled to Close,” Associated Press, August 31, 2004.
53. Bella English, “Weymouth Parishioners Stage Sit-in to Protest Closing,” Boston Globe, August 31, 2004.
54. Mary Williams Walsh, “Parishioners in Boston Plan Suit over Priests’ Pensions,” New York Times, May 21, 2005.
55. Michael Paulson, “O’Malley Seeks Review of Closings,” Boston Globe, October 8, 2004.
56. Kate Zezima, “Parish Closings Inspire Prayer Vigils and Sit-ins,” New York Times, November 6, 2004.
57. Statement of Archbishop Seán O’Malley regarding Reconfiguration, BostonCatholic.org, November 13, 2004.
58. Jonathan Finer, “Boston Torn by Parish Closings,” Washington Post, November 17, 2004.
CHAPTER 5: ITALIAN INTERVENTIONS
1. “Top Cardinal Says Media Overplay Sex Scandal,” New York Times, October 11, 2003.
2. John L. Allen Jr., All the Pope’s Men: The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Works (New York, 2004), p. 327.
3. Alex Kingsbury, “A Rift over Iraq Between President and Pope,” U.S. News & World Report, April 16, 2008.
4. John L. Allen Jr., “Vatican Asks Condoleezza Rice to Help Stop a Sex Abuse Lawsuit,” National Catholic Reporter, March 3, 2005.
5. Source for “Court of Cassation,” from Pasquale Follieri’s biography on the company website, is U.S. Attorney’s Office, Manhattan. On Pasquale’s legal problems, see John R. Emshwiller, “Joint Venture to Purchase Catholic Properties Sours,” Wall Street Journal, June 15, 2007.
6. Government Sentencing Memorandum, Deposition of FBI Agent Theodore Cacioppi, Southern District of New York, case no. 08 CR00850-001 (JKG), United States v. Raffaello Follieri, June 23, 2008. “FOLLIERI donated hundreds of thousands of dollars of money of the Principal Investor to the Vatican without disclosing those donations … [and] concealed that these payments were donations by falsely representing to the Principal Investor that the money was being used for ‘engineering reports,’ ” p. 8. The payment to Monsignor Giovanni Carrù is referenced in the letter from Castrillón to Follieri.
7. Michael Shnayerson, “The Follieri Charade,” Vanity Fair, October 2008.
8. Joe Feuerherd, “Catholic Real Estate Bonanza,” National Catholic Reporter, March 3, 2006.
9. Joe Feuerherd, telephone interview with the author, December 7, 2009.
10. Feuerherd, “Catholic Real Estate Bonanza.”
11. Ibid.
12. Melanie Bonvicino, interviews with the author, January 2010.
13. Shnayerson, “The Follieri Charade.” On the car and driver, see the Bonvicino interviews.
14. The letter, in Italian with English translation, became an exhibit in the federal prosecution in the case file, United States v. Raffaello Follieri.
15. Shnayerson, “The Follieri Charade,” citing Hathaway interview with Harper’s Bazaar.
16. John R. Emshwiller and Gabriel Kahn, “Presidential Connection: How Bill Clinton’s Aide Facilitated a Messy Deal,” Wall Street Journal, September 26, 2007.
17. Feuerherd, “Catholic Real Estate Bonanza.”
18. Various authors, “Blinded by Love,” People, July 14, 2008.
19. Invoices are exhibits in Government’s Sentencing Memorandum, United States v. Raffaello Follieri.
20. Information memo of fourteen counts, for plea agreement, accompanying letter of September 8, 2008, from Assistant U.S. Attorney Reed M. Brodsky and Raymond