A cardinal and 9 others will learn their fate in a Vatican financial trial after 2 years of hearings

A once-powerful cardinal and nine other people are to learn their fate Saturday when a Vatican tribunal hands down verdicts in a complicated financial trial that has aired the tiny city state's dirty laundry and tested its justice system. Judge Giuseppe Pignatone will read out the verdicts of the three-judge panel in the converted courtroom in the Vatican Museums, where prosecutors and defense attorneys have sparred for 2½ years over the details of a money-losing investment in a luxury London property. Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the first-ever cardinal to be prosecuted in the Vatican's criminal court, is accused of embezzlement-related charges in two tangents of the London deal and faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.