Jesmond Mugliett has been put on the state payroll. A job has been created for him – ‘executive architect’ – at Wasteserv Malta.
Jesmond Mugliett (centre) and his wife Karen (a cook who has been appointed director at the Malta Council for Science and Technology) with MCST chairman Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando (wearing sunglasses) and (back to camera) Carmen Camilleri Ciantar, who he claimed to be desperate to marry, which turned out to be completely false.
Jesmond Mugliett, who spent his last term as a Nationalist MP damaging the Nationalist government from within and portraying himself as a ‘conscientious objector’, when he was just a creepy sleaze in bed with Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and Muscat’s party (he was targetted for corruption by Sant’s party when he was a minister before 2008), has been put on the state payroll.
He starts at Wasteserv Malta Ltd, the state corporation for dealing with rubbish, in the coming days. Staff have shown him round the premises already.
Mugliett can’t be up to much as an architect if his professional practice is failing so badly that he needed to call in favours and have himself employed with a government corporation at his age. He’s got no excuse – he hasn’t been a cabinet minister for six years now. That’s plenty of time to re-establish yourself in the private sector.
Shocking, isn’t it?
This is real corruption. Bribes are just one aspect of corruption and don’t cover the spectrum. And bribes are not just deposits in your bank account or bank-notes in a brown envelope. The promise of advantage, when that advantage is provided through an abuse of your position and of government funds, with the aim of helping you achieve power, is bribery and corruption too.
Here we have somebody who, while retaining a seat in parliament on the government benches on behalf of the Nationalist Party supporters who put him there, instead worked in the interests of the Opposition and for the Labour Party.
And now he finds himself rewarded for doing that, with a state-funded salary in a job created especially for him.
But of course, there might be a rational explanation for all this. Wasteserv Malta might really, really need an ‘executive architect’ and Jesmond Mugliett might be the only person able to do the job. There might even have been an open call for applications, which none of us noticed, and a whole stream of interviews in which he came out tops, just like Lara Boffa.
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Ma’ tgharax. Its just a walk in the park. Labour only got back in government to supplement the people that did not get work under Gonzi due to their incompetence or were on the road to get rooted out. Tista tahdem maghna.
Executive architect at Wasteserv. What exactly is he going to build? Monuments to those in the Labour’s skip from recycled material?
Actually Ciccio, if he’s going to be responsible for Ghallis landfill extension, some proposed incinerator or wastewater treatment he better be up to scratch on standards. Not that I’m holding my breath.
Labour had him hanged, drawn and quartered when Manuel Dimech bridge (the irony in calling that thing after one who wouldn’t, bridge that is) landed the PN in trouble, only to have him manage a significant slice of EU structural funds.
Mugliett also broke every record to delayed projects everywhere when he was in charge.
Will Leo Brincat’s ministry please give us Mugliett’s experience, past projects et al? Surely even Leo can see where this will go.
No monuments like that of the Luqa round about.
‘Energy’ does not lie within my competencies, but wouldn’t a provider be employing engineers and scientists?
http://euobserver.com/justice/122627
Kurt Farrugia, the spokesman of Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, told this website that Malta is not doing it because it needs the money: “We have a strong economy. We’re doing this to attract reputable people who can invest in the country.”
Ahh so we have a strong economy now. The PM and his ministers must have done a fantastic job in just a few months to turn a disastrous economy into a strong economy.
Iosif galea has been employed with MEPA
What has Dr. Sant to say about this? It was him who tried, at all costs, to bring Jesmond Mugliett down. Are we now to understand that Dr. Sant has become Dr. Muscat’s puppet and accept everything Twitting Joey says?
Did not Dr. Sant project himself as being the “sweeper” of the Labour Party and began doing a “spring cleaning” of the “negative” and “corrupt” elements within his party after taking over from KMB? Is Dr. Sant still a stalwart against corruption, or he only becomes a “crusader against corruption” when others are in Government and not his own party?
http://25.media.tumblr.com/147d4cfdd2ec378135679ad5645c2bd8/tumblr_myztygmKZ71toh625o1_400.gif
From the billboard to the board. From the skip to the payroll.
From the skip to running the skips company.
“From the skip to the mizbla”, is more like it.
Well what can I say? At least Labour know how use bribes to their best advantage. The Nationalists, in their day, also propelled a few prize favourites to very powerful positions. And what did they get in return? Not even a hint of support or a peep of an endorsement.
Sadly, I have to agree with you.
“..Wasteserv Malta Ltd, the state corporation for dealing with rubbish..”
Mugliett has been given an appropriate post. Can’t we find a couple more for The Man in Orange Trousers and Franco Tabone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCRxi6rdJVE
Morality in Malta has gone to the dogs. And I am not referring to sexual behaviour. I am referring to the corrupt manner in which people who acted AGAINST the interest of their employer (namely government prior to 2013) or their political party (i.e. PN voters) get rewarded with jobs and posts, using taxpayer money.
The following extract from Daphne’s post merits reiterating because far too many people in Malta have a poor understanding what corruption is about.
“This is real corruption. Bribes are just one aspect of corruption and don’t cover the spectrum. And bribes are not just deposits in your bank account or bank-notes in a brown envelope. The promise of advantage, when that advantage is provided through an abuse of your position and of government funds, with the aim of helping you achieve power, is bribery and corruption too.”
This is a government which is morally bankrupt, because it rewards betrayal and morally reprehensible behaviour. The best known examples are John Dalli, Pullicino Orlando, Franco Debono and Mugliette, but there are more.
Here goes the waste company architect, Mr. Mugliett, suggesting monorail in Malta.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140107/local/big-bang-reform-of-bus-service-was-a-mistake.501755
What a rubbish idea.
Or maybe not. They’re fast turning Malta into an amusement park…
http://patokallio.name/photo/travel/Malaysia/Genting/ThemePark_Monorail_Large.JPG
A very short memory and another volte-face.
No-confidence motion against Mugliett. Alfred Sant asks the Chair to rule whether Mr Mugliett had lied and misled the House.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20070717/local/no-confidence-motion-against-mugliett.11039#.UswZ_rSilPk
Poggewh f’postu tassew. Ihazzez il-mizbliet jaf ferm tajjeb.
And the word at the Education Dept is that Ms Mugliett has been earmarked to replace Ms Grace Grima as DQSE DG.
“he was targetted for corruption by Sant’s party when he was a minister before 2008)”
Sant’s party wasn’t the MLP which is why it didn’t last. Sant, I repeat, was the Maltese left wing’s only hope.
Mugliett certainly deserved that job. Veru jixraqlu.
Mela issa zgur li l-progetti tal-Wasteserv kollha se jkunu ‘within budget, on time’. Bhall-bridge ta’ hdejn Paceville.
Unbelievable. How come they are appointed and not through normal government recruitment procedures? This is pure corruption.
Thanks Leo Brincat for reminding us all your through capabilities. Malta Taghna llkoll
They are going to be there only one legislature. They are not realizing that it was not Labour people who gave them a majority and ‘tested’ them.
So many people are disappointed. All say too that these are being too corrupt at just 9 months there – what will they do in a few years down the road?
Definitely worse then the Nationalists.
Their cheek and arrogance is so damned hard to stomach.
Has anyone realised just how many Labour cronies us honest tax payers are now subsidising?
Who’s next after Mugliett?
Seems like the traitors have all been paid. Anyone missing?
I see that no one replied, so that must be it then.
The project to re-engineer Malta and its morality can now start. Muscat’s idea of Malta can now be put in place.
Spielberg’s “Lincoln” ends with Thaddeus Stevens’ remarkable quote: the most liberating constitutional amendment in history, he alleges, had been “passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America”.
Evidently Muscat was inspired by this film: handing out jobs in exchange for services rendered; asking switchers in parliament to vote with him but stopping them from crossing the floor, so it looks that there is consensus across parties.
I have always maintained that in Malta we do not have true politics but just a culture division were genuine and successful professionals are attracted by a certain party while the remaining presumptuous and incompetent individuals, mediocre professionals, money-spinner businessmen and family doctors make a quick entry into politics. Obvious there are always the exceptions on both sides.
But if a detailed and un-parochial review of the current parliamentarians and MEPs one can quickly come to the same conclusion.
This phenomena also exists at Party supporters level where one party has a considerable number of switchers who study their situation carefully before voting while on the other side, the same hard line support is registered every election.
I cannot understand our entrenched practice that if my ancestors voted Labour/Nationalist, I had to continue in the same trend and leave the thinking to the interested politicians. I think this is pure stupidity.
Is he designing refuse bins?
The contents of the Labour skip are now helping manage it.
The three stooges, JM/JPO/FD!
He should be really ashamed of all the harm he managed to do , but he wanted to look a nice guy with the other party traitors indeed
Why is it that connections are being observed now. Surely their is more to come. The PN should take note that many essential observations were being skipped for reasons known only to those still hiding behind the scenes. Perhaps there are others apart from people mentioned. Their presence will come out sooner or later PN or no PN .