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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (16602)	5/30/2000 5:07:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Follow-up to my post #16597 on my Vatican Blackmail scenario.... His family has said the onetime mechanic was looking forward to returning to Switzerland to work. Navarro-Valls said Tornay gave no sign he was about to explode. The Italian and Swiss press carried stories yesterday reporting that friends of Tornay's said there was a lot of bad blood between him and his commander. One, said to be the mother of Tornay's ex-girlfriend in Rome, said Estermann threatened to ''make life difficult'' for Tornay if he was made commandant. [...] Extracted from: ted.examiner.ie The way I see it now is that Col. Estermann was using Cedric Tornay as a rent boy in his honey-trap scheme to frame some Vatican bigwigs. After all, Tornay was his best decoy: a 20-something looker with a lower-middle-class background (a former garage mechanic) and a spliff smoker.... That was enough ammo for Estermann to sweat Tornay into swishing with a couple of Cardinals. For, even if Tornay niggled Estermann's plot and "publicly" raised the issue (say, by reporting it to an ecclesiastic), he would have stood no chance against Estermann: a toke-addict snotcake vs. the Pope's savior! Moreover, even if Estermann was eventually punished, it could not have prevented him from muckracking.... At that point, Tornay would be uncovered as the damned whistleblower, anyway. On the other hand, if Tornay agreed to be in on Estermann's ploy then he'd just get his fair share of the money --maybe more than enough to start his own motor-mechanic shop, back home....

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (16602)	5/30/2000 6:29:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

I just stumbled across this: bergen.com BTW, it's now obvious that Europe's 1st-league soccer teams have been turned into bigtime Laundromats by the Mafia. Most of them are moneylosers, bleeding millions of dollars a year.... Yet, there're always a couple of glitterati who'll scramble to "rescue" the team. And then you've got all those flabbergasting "transfers" involving soccer smash-hits like Ronaldo, Owen, Cantona, etc. Sometimes, it happens that a soccer player is purchased for over $10 million and never makes it to the field!! The coach just doesn't pick him to play but keeps him "in reserve".... Which corporation could allow itself to pay a total $10 million (headhunter fee + severance pay) for a new CFO, just to tell him to stay home??