Just in case your diary is looking empty this Christmas…
And please put these pictures into the context of this report from the days when Malta Today was a newspaper:
Malta Today – News • 08 December 2002
A junior minister who accepted money for tenders paid by his own ministry
Police investigations discontinued in 1998
By a MaltaToday insight team
Tarxien – Joe Cilia, Labour MP and former parliamentary secretary for Youth and sport is angered by MaltaToday’s investigations. But so is the Labour Party with him for the revelations that will only contribute to embarrassing the anti-Europe party further.
During his short term in office, Notary Joe Cilia issued tenders to individuals who carried out jobs and then directly passed on 50 per cent of the profit to Dr Cilia. MaltaToday has confirmation that these payments were accepted by Notary Cilia.
Joe Cilia refused to comment to our reporter when contacted yesterday and simply said “I do not have to talk to you, and I expect to see my letter in MaltaToday.”
MaltaToday’s investigations on Notary Cilia kicked off after an article that appeared in last Sunday’s MaltaToday. It confirmed that the police had not continued to investigate a report of an alleged harassment case on a woman by a person in a car that at the time was in Notary Cilia’s possession.
Notary Cilia has vehemently denied the allegations but has failed to explain why the blue Mazda car DAS 654 that was in his possession at the time should not have been linked to the alleged harassment.
Cilia vehemently denied the allegations of harassment, but had to resign from his post as parliamentary secretary in Sant’s government because he took that money for purchases by tender.
Joe Cilia mal-Great Leader
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Dan modern u progressiv ukoll?
If I remember correctly, he had to resign when he was parliamentary secretary in Sant’s 22-month tragic government – something which had to do with a supply of track-suits.
Yes, he was unceremoniously kicked out. I’ve lost the plot at this point, Joseph isn’t making any sense.
‘Tluq tal-Privates’ – ooerr matron!
I’d forgotten about this chap. Is this a return to the political scene, or have I just not noticed his presence for the past decade or so?
Of course he intends to return to the political ‘scene’. I hardly think that he is organising the get-togethers as atonement for his not so past misdemeaners.
That skip needs to be enlarged.
‘The Cilia Chronicles’, Malta Today
http://archive.maltatoday.com.mt/2002/12/08/l7.html
HOW can Dr. Muscat so readily associate with him, and even pose for photos?
http://archive.maltatoday.com.mt/2002/12/08/t1.html
That’s an easy one. If Little Joey ever had any sense of shame, he’s long since lost it.
Like the one before him, he’d be ready to make a pact with the devil himself if that’s what it takes to get him to Castille.
I’ve always had this dream that the Labour Party would come up with a leader I could bear, and that the next election in line would not be a ‘do or die’ affair. With their present leader being much younger than myself, I’ve now lost all hope of it ever materialising in my lifetime.
Can you imagine Joey ever stepping down even if, by some lucky intervention from up above, he loses the next election?
Read these reports:
http://archive.maltatoday.com.mt/2002/12/08/t1.html
http://archive.maltatoday.com.mt/2002/12/08/l8.html
http://archive.maltatoday.com.mt/2002/12/08/l7.html
Interesting story. So they do mean it when they say bureaucracy has become untenable, for their style of business, that is.
No doubt why the notary wants to be allowed to work, maybe Sandro Schembri Adami could follow suit. I don’t know, but the more time passes, the more they look like an organised network of people who’ve had serious issues with the law.
Never was Labour so blatantly recycled and rubbishy. This time it’s something unique, with the ones who got away with it in the 70s and 80s joining up with those who didn’t survive Sant’s attempts to clean up the act.
I could be wrong but I think he worked as a notary with BOV in the days when Dennis Sammut was at the helm.
John Anon you are perfectly right.
Cilia worked at the Bank of Valletta’s legal office when Dennis Sammut was the Executive Director (the days of moles in each bank branch) together with Michael Falzon, the present Labour MP, and the Gozitan Grezzju Mercieca (MLP stalwart).
Their office was next to the personnel department, which was the bank’s KGB.