The world’s media continues to digest the most recent release of data files by the U.S. Department of Justice relating to the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted human trafficker and financier.
The so-called “Epstein files” continue to shed new light on the sprawling network of connections maintained by the man who pleaded guilty to child prostitution charges in the early 2000s and died in custody awaiting trial on a slew of similar and related charges.
Released caches of emails and documents have laid bare Epstein’s connections to and interests in a worldwide assortment of politicians, royalty, billionaires, trading notes with them on a range of subjects.
One exchange which caught the eye of Pillar readers, however, concerned the Institute for Works of Religion, colloquially called the Vatican Bank.
In a 2013 email following Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation announcement, Epstein told Larry Summers, the economist who served as director of the National Economic Council until 2011, and previously had worked as president of Harvard University and in the Clinton administration, that a change in leadership at the IOR may be “the most important change in the Vatican” — rather than the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.
So what did Epstein say, and what did he mean? The Pillar explains.
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