Gerald Posner Quote

The result was a remarkable December 30 decree that gave the Vatican its first ever anti–money laundering law, set to go into effect the following April 1.27 The Prevention and Countering of Illegal Activities in the Area of Monetary and Financial Dealings was issued as a motu proprio, a document historically signed personally by the Pope. Benedict took full responsibility for the decision.

Gerald Posner

The result was a remarkable December 30 decree that gave the Vatican its first ever anti–money laundering law, set to go into effect the following April 1.27 The Prevention and Countering of Illegal Activities in the Area of Monetary and Financial Dealings was issued as a motu proprio, a document historically signed personally by the Pope. Benedict took full responsibility for the decision.

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About Gerald Posner

Gerald Leo Posner is an American investigative journalist and author of thirteen books, including Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (1993), which explores the John F. Kennedy assassination, and Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998), about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. A plagiarism scandal involving articles that Posner wrote for The Daily Beast and his book Miami Babylon arose in 2010.