It's my understanding that this Follieri was a con man. Even his girlfriend didn't know he was a fraud. I think that McCain spending his birthday on his yacht only implies that he was a possible potential victim, not that he was somehow benefitting from the Follieri's fraud scheme.


The ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway has pleaded guilty to multiple charges relating to a sophisticated scam in which he allegedly posed as a Vatican official and cheated wealthy investors - including a friend of Bill Clinton's - out of millions of dollars. . .

Prosecutors have accused the Italian of posing as the Vatican's representative to the US and promising investors big discounts on property belonging to the Roman Catholic church.

But instead of spending investors' money on church property, he funnelled it overseas to personal bank accounts and used it to fund "a lavish lifestyle" with his celebrity girlfriend involving private jets and an opulent Manhattan penthouse, prosecutors said. Hathaway has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

Anne Hathaway's ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri pleads guilty to scam - Telegraph

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