Talk about brazen
Published:
March 16, 2010 at 11:56am
John Bundy was right
Magistrate Herrera is currently sitting at one of the outdoor tables at Cafe Cordina, wearing an orange jacket to make sure nobody can miss her, deep in conversation with ex-PN-current-Super One-chat-show host John Bundy, Charlon Gouder’s legal hitmen and her party guests lawyers Andy Ellul and Vince Micallef, and somebody my informer describes as “a hamallu in a denim jacket”.
Now my informer has rung again: “Issa wasal Kermit ukoll.”
To quote Magistrate Herrera’s coffee companion: pajjiz tal-Mickey Mouse.
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John Bundy was right and to prove his point he joined the circus.
It’s called pathetic irony.
Luckily, not all magistrates behave in the same way. Take this one, for a start:
“For her part, Padovani Grima, as is customary with magistrates, said that she was not in a position to make any sort of comment to a journalist. “We don’t talk to the press. It’s one of the rules of the game,” she said when contacted on Friday.” ( http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2007/12/02/n4.html )
Let alone lying to the press on the steps on court saying you that you were called a f*cking liar.
… and rounding up the journalists to do so.
Maybe John Bundy is suing the “hamallu in a denim jacket” for some reason, and the court case is being heard by the magistrate?
I thought orange jackets were only worn by people in Ukraine, supporters of the orange revolution. I am very much surprised by Bundy who just changed sides because of a bigger pay packet which has caused him the loss of respect of decent people.
“wearing an orange jacket to make sure nobody can miss her.”
Orange?
Is that what is meant by Justice Seen, justice done?
I trotted along to find out who the hamallu in a denim jacket is, but they had scarpered already.
The Commissioner of Police – no doubt, it will one day be sworn under oath in court.
Isard du Pont, next time you need to gallop all the way.
There´s nothing better to improve my productivity at work than a 5-minute glance at this blog during my 15-minute coffee break. It makes my day! Thank you, D.
I cannot understand how she does not realise that she is sinking deeper in the mire. Her attitude appears to be “I don’t care, no one can remove me from my magisterial seat because you need two-thirds of the House to remove me and you have not got this”. Dignity below zero.
Yes, that is just about it. And the real culprit here is the Labour Party, for having brought about, and is now visibly sustaining, a situation where any member of the judiciary so inclined can indulge with impunity in all manner of irresponsible conduct.
A totally gratuitious, unsupported and untrue assertion.
Totally Twanny. So predictable.
Bundy’s only interest has always been self promotion, but he did not realise how much this move to One has hurt him. People do not like mercenaries. Hanging out with Consuelo Herrera at this particular moment is yet another bad move on his part, unless it is part of a strategy of appeasing Labour for some future gain, when they are in power in 2013.
Did anyone seriously expect her to throw her apron over her face and run inside weeping with mortification?
Let’s hope she’s not also wearing those red leather pants/trousers she was last seen bursting out of at Fiorino d’oro.
I wondered when somebody would bring that up. I had heard about it, but was reluctant to mention it myself as I wasn’t quite sure. It was at Judge Alberto Magri’s 60th birthday party, wasn’t it? Skin-tight red leather trousers, bursting at the seams and, as the Maltese expression so aptly puts it, ‘everything explained’, and with a button-busting blouse to boot.
We may laugh, but it was the perfect outfit to wear while sitting legs akimbo on your lover’s knee in a restaurant full of people while in the middle of a big-time scandal. Tens of people saw that, and they all went off to tell somebody else.
If Alberto Magri has now joined the judiciary’s louche set, one despairs. There is clearly a problem with the single members of the judiciary because they are all being sucked into this social mess, one by one, possibly through their loneliness and because they don’t have a spouse to keep them on the straight and narrow. I can think of only one exception.
To me, the great mystery is not why Magistrate Scerri Herrera continues to dig her grave, but why she persists in believing that she is the right shape and age to wear outfits designed for 20-year-old models. You can’t get away with tight red leather trousers even at 20 if you have a bulky bottom, big thighs and a disproportionately flat chest, let alone at 45.
Is she actively going for the Madame Caruana look? Unfortunately, she lacks Marie Angelique’s good nature, to say nothing of her bust.
Tight trousers with ‘everything explained’? Would that be a reference to what my teenage daughter calls ‘the camel-hoof look’?
Why does the song Taxi Mary come to mind?
@ Isard – Consuelo Herrara has never had a sense of “proportion”, or rather of suiting her attire to her “proportions”. During her early days in court when she was just a new graduate, she was probably twice the size she is now. One day she made a grand entrance into the law courts in…….SKI-PANTS.
I remember that everyone who I bumped into that day invariably asked “Have you seen Consuelo?” Ah, and a chorus of “Naghmluha chips, jew?”
Isard du Pont, Judge Magri’s name should definitely not be brought into this whole messy business. His personal and professional integrity is second to none, with an untarnished reputation which is an asset to the judiciary.
This is the kind of person who wears red leather trousers:
http://www.x17online.com/images/photo-sets/conv/bruno070809_X17/bruno070809_03-full.jpg
Isard du Pont should not sully the name of Judge Alberto Magri. The judge is a well respected member of the judiciary and his behaviour can in no way be described as louche.
I am in total agreement with Mark Sammut’s and Philip Incorvaja’s comments.
I though the red was the lace G-string. Or was that at the Malta Music Awards?
Now would that be a double decker bus?
Banana Republic, Pajjiż tal-Mickey Mouse – not after the great awakening of ’87, surely? (I was going to put a smiley here, but I resisted the temptation).
[Daphne – One assumes that you’ve failed to notice the political disposition of the key players in this charade, and that includes those who stood for election on the PN ticket.]
Twanny just doesn’t know when he’s licked.
I probably would, if it ever happens. I’ll let you know. (space for smiley)
Twanny, kieku wara l-87 iddeportaw nies bhalek, kieku iva, dal-pajjiz mhux banana republic.
Can’t believe that JOHN has joined the circus! I HOPE not!
One TV Monday to Friday from 7am – 10am. It’s a scream especially when he is accompanied by Miriam Dalli reading this:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100310/local/caruana-galizia-case-asst-commissioner-denies-magistrates-claim
and this
http://www.timesofmalta.com.mt/articles/view/20100311/local/no-decision-taken-yet-commission-for-justice
I can assure you that JOHN has joined no circus, I just spoke to him.
The pun was intended for the ‘ONE’ circus and not John. Pretty simple really. Having said that though, only time will tell. With all the goings on, nothing surprises me anymore.
John Bundy is actually the circus clown.
He did not, did he? Mela tmejjel bik James. Jew jahseb li jista’ jiekol minn zewg ihluq..
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3348/3519128813_01b985d2cf_m.jpg
jowzef: John Bundy declared himself to be a Nationalist and that he would remain so when he interviewed Joseph Muscat.
John thought he could do a better breakfast programme with another media company, but his plan failed. His second best option was One TV – beggars cannot be choosers.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080805/local/tvm-one-lead-tv-and-radio-surveys
John Bundy is on One TV not One Radio.
The future is orange.
Or red leather. What next – nurse’s outfits?
Well, she probably has a collection of policemen’s uniforms already, so no need for a trip to the fetish shop.
But it ain’t bright.
Better a truth junkie than a heroin junkie, Kenneth.
Magistrate Herrera’s asked for a protection order. Is this the sort of thing she wants to cover up?
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/03/15/heres-one-reason-why-its-in-the-public-interest-to-know-that-the-magistrate-dines-and-parties-with-jeffrey-pullicino-orlando/
Or maybe Magistrate Herrera wants to cover up this too?
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/03/15/heres-another-one/
Or maybe she doesn’t want anyone asking questions about this one
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/03/15/give-me-strength-robert-arrigo-too/
Or maybe she’s worried about too many questions about these cases, seeing as Jesmond Mugliett and Miriam Dalli were her party guests:
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/03/15/two-of-magistrate-herreras-birthday-party-guests-slag-it-out-in-court-while-she-presides/
Even Ira Losco, Moira Delia, Andrea (of Liquorish – forgot the surname) and Clare Agius were at her party… does she know everyone?
[Daphne – No. She doesn’t know me, and she swore to it under oath.]
Cassar.
“No. She doesn’t know me, and she swore to it under oath” .
Did the magistrate believe her?
[Daphne – I wouldn’t know. Anyway, it’s irrelevant, because when I speak under oath, I’ll say she lied. Let’s put it this way – she knows me a whole lot more than she does 90% of the people she’s seen about town with.]
John Bundy was having lunch with her and hubby Robbie, last Sunday at Don Berto’s at the Birgu Waterfront….. and this time she had a very bright purple jacket.
Robert is not her husband. He is Marie Louise Musumeci’s husband.
And Magistrate Consuelo Scerri-Herrera’s husband is called Lawrence Scerri, not Robert Musumeci. The latter is her bedfellow.
Or should that have, perhaps, been, “one of …”?
Did they pop over to Stephen Spiteri’s for a drink afterwards? Jaqaw John Bundy il-latest keyring taghhom? Ghax dik dejjem b’xi keyring jew xi spare wheel.
Or maybe she’s afraid of too many questions about the intrigue involving the parties to this case?
http://www2.justice.gov.mt/kawzi/ccm_case.asp?FrmCM=209556&lng=ENG
Isn’t that the same Carmelo Galea who asked Consuelo to act on his behalf at Lija Council concerning a development project in Transfiguration Avenue? And isn’t the Commission for the Administration of Justice investigating a matter involving Magistrate Herrera and property developer Carmelo Galea?
Malta Today had reported on the Lija issue
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2008/08/31/t12.html
Yes, Malta Today had reported on the Lija debacle. They’ve gone quiet ever since, apart from Saviour Balzan’s cock up.
He granted a face-saving Hello magazine-style interview to Robert Musumeci allowing him to claim that he and Magistrate Scerri Herrera were friends before their ‘relationship’ developed late last year.
Then he dismissed the developing story because “Malta being the place it is, this relationship has long been known and talked about in private among various circles: not least, the PN’s own inner sanctum.”
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2010/02/07/editorial.html
It makes you wonder why they never asked any questions about Musumeci being appointed court expert.
It is the same Carmelo Galea – lock, stock and barrel.
Basta dejjem bashing Malta Today with a hidden agenda defending Consuelo.
[Daphne – That was then, this is now. Their agenda ‘defending Consuelo’ developed over the last year or so. And it’s not hidden.]
Let me repeat the last part of my comment:
It makes you wonder why they never asked any questions about Musumeci being appointed court expert.
It goes without saying that I was referring to Magistrate Scerri Herrera.
They’re a fine bunch, that lot up at Malta Today. A star columnist who drinks with magistrates who spill the beans and an editor who draws a discreet veil over the antics of another one.
Can you think of any media that are investigating the behaviour of any members of the judiciary?
That explains Magistrate Herrera’s third attempt at shutting down discussion on this blog.
To be honest I am so glad that some people have been exposed about their wheeling and dealings.
John Bundy has always been a Mickey Mouse man but I never dreamed that he would change his political principles. Veru ma trid tahlef ghal hadd.
It’s called opportunism. Principles are not part of the equation.
Pity for all of them that Michael Cassar was not there!
Who knows who sent her drinks this time?
We know that Cassar never sent her any. He is more credible than her, after all.
But this is a joke right? I mean the red leather pants and Consuelo.
Apparently not. I’d heard about that too.
Perhaps the government should use some Mintoffian tactics in relation to the Consuelo farce. If she cannot be removed because a 2/3 majority cannot be achieved, a solution would be for the court administration not to make an awla available for the magistrate. Alas, I am sure the Camera degli Avvocati would not approve of such tactics.
Right, and that means paying her for the next 15 years while she does sweet f*ck all and then ‘retires’ to a comfortable pension.
Madonna! How dare she talk to John Bundy? This is an outrage. And aren’t the police doing anything about this?
La Redoubte must think that it is better to pay the magistrate’s salary and continue with the judicial farce rather than do something effective about it. Indeed there is something to be said about the entertainment value this saga is generating.
I think nothing of the sort. She won’t resign, she won’t be impeached, so the remaining solution is to relieve her of her duties. That’s all.
If she had any shred of decency about her, she’d have resigned long ago. Then again, if she had any shred of decency none of this would ever have happened.