Cardinal Sentenced to 5½ Years in Vatican Fraud Trial

FILE - Angelo Becciu, a former adviser to Pope Francis, speaks to the media in Rome on Sept. 25, 2020. Becciu received a sentence of five years and six months in jail from a Vatican court on Dec. 16, 2023, for financial crimes.

A Vatican court Saturday sentenced a once powerful Italian cardinal to five years and six months in jail for financial crimes at the end of a historic trial.