Events in the world beyond the Vatican City State have, however, served as a powerful vindication of both the evidence and many of the conclusions. Michele Sindona Among the crimes of which I accused Sindona were the fraudulent bankruptcy of his Italian empire and the contract murder of Giorgio Ambrosoli. Three months after initial publication of this book in the United States, and although he was still serving a 25-year term of imprisonment, the US Justice Department felt compelled to return Sindona to Italy to stand trial accused of precisely those same crimes. Sindona’s first reaction upon hearing the news of his extraction is particularly significant. ‘If I finally get there, if no one does me in first – and I’ve already heard talk of giving me a poisoned cup of coffee – I’ll turn my trial into a circus. I’ll tell everything.’ After he had arrived in Italy, Sindona was visited in prison by other members of P2. Subsequently he had a change of mind about telling all.
