A true story of money, Mafia & the Vatican (Shadow Kingdom Episode 1)

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Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Today we're excited to bring you the first episode of Shadow Kingdom: God's Banker. In the summer of 1982, the Vatican’s top money man was found dead. Roberto Calvi was at the center of a prolific money laundering scheme that put him in the crosshairs of the Sicilian mafia, a secret far-right chapter of the Freemasons, and the Catholic Church. Forty years after his death was ruled a suicide, Shadow Kingdom host Nicolo Majnoni got a tip that there was more to the story. So who killed God’s banker? Shadow Kingdom is a new series from Crooked Media and Campside Media. Each season starts with a crime, and as the layers are peeled back to find out who or what is at the center of it, a larger system at play is revealed. Subscribe to Shadow Kingdom: God’s Banker wherever you get your podcasts or join Crooked's Friends Of The Pod subscription community to hear the full season right now. Join Friends Of The Pod at crooked.com/friends or subscribe through the Shadow Kingdom Apple feed.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Tommy here.
0:01.0	Well, John's here too.
0:01.9	Hi.
0:02.4	There he is.
0:02.9	I'm excited.
0:03.6	We're excited to share with you the newest limited series made in partnership with
0:07.4	Campside Media that we know you guys are going to love.
0:10.3	It's called Shadow Kingdom, God's Banker.
0:13.3	I mean, first of all, beat that title.
0:14.9	We could say nothing else.
0:16.0	Beat that title, Spielberg.
0:17.3	You should want to listen. Shadow Kingdom is a story about one of the most shocking cases of corruption and greatest mysteries in European history.
0:24.1	This is the story of how the Vatican Bank became a money laundering machine and how God's banker, the man who controlled it all and knew too much, ended up hanging under a bridge in London.
0:34.9	Wow.
0:35.9	I remember greenlight.
0:36.9	Eat your heart our conclave. Yeah. I remember green light. Eat your heart of conclave.
0:38.4	Yeah.
0:39.9	I remember we greenlit this.
0:41.4	This was like the, they read us the log line and we green lit the show.
0:45.2	Yep.
0:45.5	And it is delivered in every way since then.
0:47.7	It's this fascinating deep dive into these hidden networks of power that shaped the world then and shape the world today.
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