Hasn't Mister Penis Ring's defence counsel heard of David Mills and Berlusca?
Hi, I am David Mills, and like Mister Penis Ring I got my money afterward, and not before I withheld court testimony to help Silvio Berlusconi. The Italian courts ranked it as a bribe and not as a thank-you present, and sent me down for four and a half years.
I’m guessing that Mister Penis Ring and his defence counsel haven’t a clue who David Mills is – because maybe, like a good two-thirds of Maltese people, they haven’t a clue what’s going on beyond Gozo.
Or maybe it’s all part of the act, like the rosary beads Mister Penis Ring clutched in court this morning, probably for the first time in his life, and all that horseshit about the three confessors between Manchester and London. I bet those confessors wear some really foxy clothes and unlike Mister Penis Ring, they take their money up front – though like him, they take it in cash.
David Mills, the now estranged husband of a British government minister, was sentenced earlier this year by an Italian court to four and a half years in prison after being found guilty of accepting $600,000 as a reward for withholding court testimony and perverting the course of justice, to help Silvio Berlusconi, that country’s prime minister (and there’s another country more ridiculous than ours).
He got his money after withholding that testimony and the court was in no doubt as to how to class it: as a bribe.
As for Berlusconi, he had already rushed through a law which makes the prime minister immune from prosecution.
You can’t teach the Italians much about bribery and corruption and how they work and are defined, but going by what Mister Penis Ring’s defence counsel said in court today, they certainly have a lot to teach us. If money given as a reward – and accepted – after the event is not a bribe, then I am the cookie monster from Sesame Street.
David Mills, not being a Catholic, wasn’t clutching at rosary beads in court. But those sorts of people are all of a piece. “I am innocent, but this is a highly political case,” he protested to the media. “I am hopeful that the verdict and sentence will be set aside on appeal, and am told that I will have excellent grounds.” Dak l-aqwa, hija.
The source of the bribe was never identified. Mills had at first admitted accepting what he had considered a gift or loan. But he then retracted his statement, leaving the prosecution to track how the money had reached him through a trail of offshore trusts and hedge funds. His wife insisted that her husband “had reasonable grounds to believe it was a gift”. For what, exactly – a really terrific blow-job b’xi wahda tac-cikkulata minghand NM Arrigo?
In the case of Mister Penis Ring, he tells us that the money was chucked onto his boardroom table while he sat there, and he even told us who delivered it. And he’s still insisting it’s not a bribe.
“Oh grandmother,” says Little Red Riding Hood to the wolf. “What big sins you have.”
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‘two-thirds of the Maltese people’ …. possibli?
Perhaps three quarters?
“Dr Arrigo said he took the money home put it in a box and started thinking about what he could do with it. His first thought was to give it to charity. At that point he could not go to the police and give it to them. Nor could he spend it.”
( http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091117/local/former-chief-justice-explains-his-actions )
Plus he took two LM20 notes from the envelope dumped on the boardroom table by his old Edwardian friend – without counting the rest, ta – and spent them at a pharmacy (I stand to be corrected on this but if it is correct what did he buy? Durex ? Oh sweet irony!) to check if they were counterfeit! He did not want to be accused with circulating counterfeit notes as well.
What is so raunchy about a cockring?
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Cute. Thanksgiving next week in the US. This turkey sludge ‘judge’ would be loved there. They’d eat’m up.
Thanks. Yet I doubt it.
Luckily enough Noel Arrigo isn’t the prime minister, otherwise he would have introduced a law “AD PERSONAM” and wouldn’t need any kind of rings to hold onto. If he was an Italian citizen, Arrigo would have tried to make the trial a more lengthy process, just in time for the new law that will make court proceedings longer than two years a closed case.
What worries me is that he will get off because of a technicality and resume his life – accepted by the society he moves in.
He boldly acts as if in his whole life he has never performed any act even mildly unethical. Could any of you please explain to me why he didn’t just go to the police with the money? Isn’t that what judges do even if they receive an anonymous letter?
PBS had a budding artist do some drawings of the court a la US of A. There was a portrait of the accused which looked a cross between a malevolent Mr Pickwick and Mr Bumble of Oliver Twist fame.
when you say pajjiz tal biki, does it mean you don’t believe the presiding judge will deliver a fair sentence ? even a penis ring seller has a right to a fair trail. jekk haqqu j’alla jibla 5 snin gewwa imma mhux jehel il pajjiz kollu. Was there never a corrupt judge in britain or are they born only in italy and malta
Obviously she is talking about cock rings, because it doesn’t take a genius to get things into perspective about this guy. He sells things that offend Catholics yet pretends he is one, biex jidher helu. He’s a charlatan and those three confessors are his little wizards.
Maltese schizophrenia at its best. The Maltese degrading themselves, while still holding one another to the highest moral standards known to man. Malta the Microcosmic Universe, we salute you.
(and await inevitable apocalyptic relief with trepidation and champagne)
You say Italy is ridiculous but you like what Italian men say about Maltese women…No doubt it’s the exception that proves the rule.
I just think it’s ridiculous.