Konrad Mizzi, Chris Cardona and Edward Scicluna will have to wait to find out which judge will hear their appeal from an order by a magistrate for a criminal inquiry to investigate their conduct when three public hospitals were sold. The judge on duty when they filed their appeal last Friday was Consuelo Scerri Herrera. [...]

Here's Karol Aquilina's tweet after Keith Schembri preferred to let the allegations of corruption against him stand than admit to much worse when under oath in court. Why did the #chicken cross the road? ? It was running away from its own libel suit. ?@keithaschembri #corrupt #crook pic.twitter.com/0Z5IhnREo2 — Karol Aquilina (@KarolAquilina) November 11, 2019

The Maltese phrase is “inqela b’żejtu”. He filed a libel suit against Simon Busuttil three years ago because Simon Busuttil accused him of being corrupt. He testified to sustain his claim of innocence on the 16 October 2017. Hours later, Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who caught him feathering his nest in Panama was killed [...]