Berlusconi Caught Out Trying to Gag the Media

Wiretaps of Silvio Berlusconi haranguing a broadcasting official over what he saw as politically hostile programming have prompted new criticism of the Italian premier for attempting to stifle the media.

The new transcripts, published in Italy for the first time yesterday, suggest that Mr Berlusconi telephoned a commissioner on the country's independent broadcast regulator, Agcom, after he learned that a show examining corruption cases against him was due to go out on state broadcaster Rai.

"What the fuck are you doing with all this?" the irate Prime Minister shouted at the commissioner, Giancarlo Innocenzi. In another call Mr Berlusconi demands that a show looking at his alleged mafia links be muzzled.'

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The Last Will And Testament Of God's Banker

Archbishop Paul Marcinkus ran the Vatican bank.
When the Cicero native died, he left behind a mysterious financial scandal. But he also left a will that the I-Team has obtained.
Paul Marcinkus was the highest ranking American churchman ever in Rome.
For nearly two decades, Marcinkus was the pope’s C.F.O. with control of the Vatican’s vast wealth.
But that was also Marcinkus’ undoing. He provoked a billion-dollar scandal that he never explained, which sent the I-Team looking for answers in the last will and testament of God’s banker.

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