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Cosimo Giunti

Cosimo Giunti was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and member of the Roman Curia during the 21st century.

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Cosimo Giunti was born in Italy, and he became a Roman Catholic priest before being consecrated a cardinal and being appointed to the Roman Curia, serving under Pope Benedict XVI. Giunti had links to the Sicilian Mafia, laundering the Mafia's money for over three decades as of the 2000s. In 2008, he served on the Vatican's commission for the sale of valuable beachfront property in Ostia, and he advocated for the sale of the property to the crime boss Samurai's Blue Mirror consortium because it could help restore the Church's bottom line. Monsignor Theodosiou objected, saying that the Church needed to be sure of who they were selling the land to. The Curia's auditor Sara Monaschi sided with Theodosiou, secretly because she wished to enable her husband Sandro Monaschi to buy the property himself. Giunti later met with Samurai and told him that Theodosiou only listened to Monaschi, and Samurai warned Giunti that the "guys from the South" were behind the deal, and that one didn't mess with the Mafia.

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