April 4, 2010 For Immediate Release

Vatican Bank Claims Plaintiffs

Alperin v. Vatican Bank

Ninth Circuit Court of AppealsCase No. 09-17761, 08-16060www.vaticanbankclaims.comresistk@yahoo.com+1 202-318-2406

Holocaust Survivors Denounce Vatican on EasterAttorneys Call for Mass Lawsuits against Pope by all Victims

San Francisco: Former Yugoslavia was a vast killing ground during the Second WorldWar – upwards to a million Orthodox Christians, Jews, and Roma were murdered by theNazis and their Croatian Allies. It has long been known that some of the loot includinggold from concentration camps ended up at the Vatican Bank deposited there by Catholicclergy acting on behalf of war criminals.Holocaust survivors are outraged that the Pope compares his role in the sexual abusecover up to that of Holocaust victims in a recent announcement made by the Pope'spersonal preacher, Father Raniero Cantalamessa. “I am calling for all Holocaust andsexual abuse survivors and related organization to sue the Pope on grounds of historicaldefamation and conspiracy to cover up crimes,” states Jonathan Levy, an attorney for thesurvivors suing the Vatican.A lawsuit seeking truth and justice for thegenocideof over 500,000 Serbs, Jews andRoma by the Ustasha was filed in 1999 against the Vatican Bank and Franciscan Order of Friars Minor. The plaintiffs include Holocaust survivors and their heirs in Serbia, theUnited States, Ukraine, and Sweden.The evidence collected in the past ten years points squarely at the Vatican Bank andFranciscan Order and includes the sworn testimony of former US Armycounterintelligence agentWilliam Gowenand declassified documents.The Vatican has claimed it is immune from lawsuit regardless of its role in laundering theprofits of genocide. The US Courts have agreed so far with the Vatican and the case ison appeal.Jonathan Levy and Thomas Easton attorneys for the Plaintiffs vow to take the matter tothe US Supreme Court if necessary and to question the impartiality of those SupremeCourt Justices who identify themselves as Catholics.