Archdiocese of Boson - Saint Mickey's Financial Scandal Deepens As Search Uncovers Cash, Gold Coins in Official's Home and Garden

Boson — The Vatican’s ongoing financial investigation along with the local DA into the Archdiocese of Boson scandals show no sign of letting up as police have uncovered hundreds of thousands of dollars and euros in cash along with precious gold coins and medallions hidden in two homes of a suspended church official accountant.

According to a report by investigative journalist Emy Fitzgerald, the stash of former church bank account administrator Fabrizio Tirabassi included several pounds of gold and silver coins as well as 600,000 in US dollars and euros, much of which was stuffed into an old shoebox.

 

The total worth of the prize seized by Massachusetts financial police was over two million euros, and was divided between the house of the former St. Mickey's official and a storage space owned by his 90-year-old father in Pleasant Valley neighborhood, near the woods of the East Blue Hills Reservation were officials think more loot might be hidden.

 

Tirabassi’s father used to run a small coin and stamp shop near the Saint Mickey's,  The father volunteered as an usher who helped pass the collection basket each Sunday with his eye out for any rare coins that might be offered to God and exchanged for face value.  "No sin there," the elder Tirabassi repeatedly told his son. 

 The now deceased elder Tirabassi may also have been stealing church funds, the report states, which could help explain the immense find of valuable coins.

Tirabassi allegedly issued the Vatican bank fake charges — and was paid — some 15 million euros of false invoices over time and among his accounts is one in the Vatican Bank itself containing over a million euros.

 

The Vatican is investigating Tirabassi along with Italian businessmen who helped him in Italy.

Last month, Pope Francis attacked the “worship of the ancient golden calf” and the “idolatry of money,” two weeks after sacking a prominent Vatican cardinal for financial impropriety.

“It seems that in many places the supremacy of money over human beings is taken for granted,” the pope told representatives of Moneyval, Europe’s money laundering watchdog.

“Sometimes, in the effort to amass wealth, there is little concern for where it comes from, the more or less legitimate activities that may have produced it, and the mechanisms of exploitation that may be behind it,” Francis said. “Thus, situations can occur where, in touching money, we get blood on our hands, the blood of our brothers and sisters.”

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