http://[url]http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134452661_ndig11.html[/url] (third item)
[b]State insurance officials to sue Vatican over fraud[/b]
JACKSON, Miss. — Insurance commissioners of five states are suing the Vatican, alleging the church was involved in a $200 million-plus insurance fraud scheme run by now-jailed financier Martin Frankel.
The federal lawsuit, filed Thursday by commissioners of Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas, says that Frankel in 1998 tried to use the church as a front to purchase insurance companies.
The Vatican said it had no immediate comment.