By Milan Adams
Preppgroup
February 7, 2026
London, June 18, 1982. A postal clerk is walking to work across Blackfriars Bridge. He looks over the edge and sees a man hanging from the scaffolding. The man is wearing an expensive gray suit, but his pockets are weighed down with bricks and nearly $15,000 in cash.
The man was Roberto Calvi, chairman of Banco Ambrosiano. The press called him "God's Banker."