Why doesn’t Karmenu Vella give us an affidavit about Julia Farrugia’s daddy, Il-Botom, and his nice little gun?
Picture shows Karmenu Vella on a trip to China with his adored Prime Minister Mintoff, in 1972. That’s right, 1972. This is no spring chicken we’re talking about.
Regular readers of this website, who might not actually have been around at the time, will know that Karmenu Farrugia aka il-Botom, Karmenu Vella’s loyal driver and sidekick in the Golden Years, was part of a carcade of thugs who shot at the Nationalist Party club in Tarxien.
The gun used to kill Raymond Caruana at the Nationalist Party club in Gudja in 1986, which was then planted by the corrupt police force on one Pietru Pawl Busuttil in Hal Safi and used to frame him, is supposed to have been in Il-Botom’s possession at the time of the Tarxien shooting.
Karmenu Vella himself, when he was a cabinet minister in the Golden Years of Mintoff, was caught unloading boxes of cargo at the Tunny Net restaurant in Ghadira, straight off a yacht that entered the bay direct from a trip to Sicily.
Back in the Golden Years, when returning from outside Maltese waters, you had to put into Grand Harbour and inform Port Control first. Going straight from Sicily to Ghadira Bay, and especially without informing Port Control that you had entered Maltese waters, was a criminal offence.
People who were not Mintoffian cabinet ministers risked arrest by doing that kind of thing, so they never did. But here’s the thing: the only people who could afford boats were Labour ministers, Labour henchmen, and people who curried favour with individuals like Karmenu Vella, to feather their nests.
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I’ve knowm Karmenu for many a year, even doing business with him.
Karmenu has two faces, both smiling and affable. The one face I knew was all business, up front, interested only in a Turkish project we were planning.
However, I lost a bundle, as did his ‘partners’. So he said. Wonder about that too.
When I asked him why he didn’t try for the PL leadership during the end of Sant years, he said that ^too many things will come out’.
Wondered about that, until I realized that his past is as bad as his mentor Mintoff. His second face.
I now know which face will surface if the reds are returned o power. Not a good prospect.
I am absolutely fed up with JPO, Mugliett and Franco. A slap on the wrist won’t do it for me.
Immediate expulsion from the PN is a MUST. What a circus.
Is it their expulsion you really want, or early elections which will give us a farcical albeit tragic circus for the next five years at least.
@Not Tonight, A MLP in government will not be farcical, but worrying for our families , a backward giant step and horrific.
These three stooges, no doubt have hurt the government and Joseph Muscat is enjoying the PN circus.
The people now are discussing the three stooges instead of what Muscat would do once in government.