Mario Gerada: why the Labour Party executive committee member and George Vella’s cousin will get to keep those EUR208,000
Mario Gerada with his girlfriend, the Great Leader and Michelle
The Attorney-General will appeal against Silvio Meli’s judgement. Meanwhile, there is going to be a change of government. The incoming Labour government will instruct the Attorney-General to lose the appeal.
If there were a Labour government already, there would have been no appeal against the decision.
So how does this work (or rather, not)?
The Attorney-General’s ‘separation of powers’ autonomy comes into force with criminal prosecutions. This is not a criminal case, but a civil one.
The defendant is the government of Malta. The government of Malta is, in cases like this, the AG’s ‘client’. It is the client who instructs the lawyer to appeal or not, and whether to relinquish it.
The incoming Labour government will not instruct the AG to drop the appeal against the award of EUR208,000 to George Vella’s cousin, who is also a member of the Labour Party’s national executive committee. It would look too obvious and make for some very damaging headlines.
But it can inform the AG’s office that it has no interest in winning the appeal and to proceed accordingly. Gerada’s nether regions are covered.
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People like Mr. Gerada have no qualms about accepting such sums of money. Do they really think that the money is being given by the government and not by the Maltese taxpayers?
Of course, what do they care, as long as they bum off those who work hard. By the way is the ‘compensation’ money subject to tax or is it also tax free, to add insult to injury.
Perhaps it does not fall under the legal definition of corruption but, morally, this is corruption pure and simple.
And they are still in Opposition.
Another dish out by Justice Meli – re lady port worker.
This man must learn how to solve his contradictions before blabbing on Facebook.
One way he can solve his contradictions is by learning how to think.
Prof Debono was right about his thinking methods. If this country had more thinkers, politicians aside, people wouldn’t be hoping on the next election to determine whether their lives would be improving significantly.
Your life or mine should improve not by being dependent on a change in government but it should improve by being dependent on ourselves and by the way we think.
Does Mr. Gerada get his payment of EUR 208,000 immediately, or does he have to wait until a decision is delivered by the court of appeal, assuming an appeal is filed?
[Daphne – After the appeal, if it fails.]
“why the Labour Party executive committee member and George Vella’s cousin will get to keep those EUR208,000”
But wouldn’t this be a great opportunity for new Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to save on waste (“naqtghu il-hela u t-tberbiq tal-flus”) and hence to order the AG to win the appeal so that the government can use those EUR 208,000 insteat to reduce the water and electricity tariffs for the needy instead of paying them to one Labour bummer?
Charity begins at home. This would show the nation how kind Labour is, and how it can redistribute wealth from those who have it to those who don’t.
After all, it seems that Gerada is Old Mittel Kless.
Fast lanes exist at airports (against payment), supermarkets etc. Why not at the Law Courts?
Qabda posers. Bet you all they ‘ll soon apply for Dom Mintoff and Joseph Muscat to be waxed and modelled at Madame Tussaud’s wax museum in London.