Anne Hathaway's ex Raffaello Follieri pleads guilty to fraud charges

fametastic.co.uk - 11th Sep 2008

Anne Hathaway: The Italian businessman was arrested in June on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering dating and has been on remand in New York since then as he could not afford the $21million bail guarantee. He is said to have requested to be allowed to enter the plea earlier than anticipated due to “unspecified inmate issues” related to his holding cell. Follieri was accused of operating a scheme between 2005 and 2007 to purchase properties in the US from the Catholic Church. He was also suspected of misappropriating between $2-6million of investors’ money. In a statement he read out in the court yesterday, he explained: “I wired money from a New York bank to the Vatican bank in Rome to pr Read full story at fametastic.co.uk

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