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To: Ironyman who wrote (47476)	1/25/2000 10:31:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116756

<<Why raise rates when you can just add more fees!>> but why Now?

To: Ironyman who wrote (47476)	1/26/2000 7:36:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116756

OT(?) Vatican Bank Sued For Alleged War Crimes By Sherman H. Skolnick <skolnick@ameritech.net> 1-25-2000 In apparently the first legal action of its kind, the Vatican Bank has been sued by World War Two victims and their heirs and beneficiaries. Brought as a class action in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the initial plaintiffs are Ukranians and ex-Soviet citizens but the affected class includes Serbians, Roma, anti-Fascist Croatians, and Jews. The suit seeks "an accounting, restitution, disgorgement and to recover damages arising out of defendant VATICAN BANK (hereinafter referred to as IOR[Instituto Per Le Opere Di Religione,Institute for Religious Works]), the FRANCISCAN ORDER, and other banking institutions' and religious orders and organizations participation in a common scheme and course of conduct: "(1) to profit from, both directly and indirectly, the inhumane and genocidal system instituted by the Nazi and Ustasha ideology; "(2) to obtain, accept, conceal, convert and profit from assets looted by the Ustasha Regime and deposited in, or liquidated through, the IOR, Defendant Banks, and Franciscan organization during the ascendency of the Ustasha regime and following the demise of the regime at the behest of former Ustasha and Nazi leaders through the offices of the Franciscan Order; and "(3) to retain and convert assets deposited (cont) sightings.com