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New hospitals owner accused in Westminster of predatory tactics and secretiveness

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2017-12-22T12:51:13+01:00Fri, 22nd Dec '17, 12:34|

Last February the UK's House of Commons debated the activities in the UK and Europe of Cerberus Capital Management, the owner of Steward Health Care that has just acquired Karin Grech, Gozo General and St Luke's Hospital. SNP MP George Kerevan told the UK Parliament "Cerberus Capital Management is an American private equity firm that [...]

Steward Health Care owner is reviewing American spy agencies for Donald Trump

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2017-12-22T17:52:20+01:00Fri, 22nd Dec '17, 12:01|

Steward Health Care, now owners of Gozo General, Karin Grech and St Luke's Hispitals, is owned by Cerberus Capital, a Manhattan asset-management firmed owned by Stephen Freiberg. A few days before the last US Presidential election Stephen Freinberg paid almost a million dollars into Donald Trump's campaign to fund a negative advertising campaign to harm [...]

Steward’s sister company is a private army

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2017-12-22T12:52:41+01:00Fri, 22nd Dec '17, 11:43|

Steward Health Care is owned by New York-based Cerberus Capital Management that also owns DynCorp International a private army hired by the United States for international operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and other war zones. In the 1990s two of its employees were found to have kidnapped children for sex slavery in Bosnia. In Iraq [...]

New hospital owners in financial dire straits since inception

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2017-12-22T14:19:42+01:00Fri, 22nd Dec '17, 11:22|

Steward Health Care, that have just taken over the Gozo General Hospital, St Luke's Hospital and Karin Grech have been in existence since 2010 and have reported yearly losses every year except 2015 when they reported a profit after settling an outstanding pension debt. Steward recorded a loss $52 million in 2013 on $2.1 billion [...]

Steward Medical shut down a hospital they owned for 3 years and fired 700 staff, because it wasn’t making enough money

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2017-12-22T12:54:25+01:00Fri, 22nd Dec '17, 11:04|

Steward Health Care System, the new owners of the St Luke's Hospital, Karin Grech Hospital and Gozo General Hospital, three years ago closed down the 124-year old Quincy Medical Centre Hospital and fired its 700 staff because it was not making enough profit. The hospital closed down in December 2014. Steward had only purchased the [...]

The Daily Swindle

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2017-12-22T12:54:59+01:00Thu, 21st Dec '17, 18:33|

When Chris Fearne took a short break to acknowledge Tim Sebastian's reach-around last week, he lifted his hands up in the air, the palms of his hands away from him, his fingers fanned out, and clarified he did not personally sign the Vitals deal to sell three Maltese hospitals to a company owned by someone [...]

La Repubblica names Daphne Caruana Galizia person of the year

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2017-12-21T11:16:57+01:00Thu, 21st Dec '17, 11:16|

La Repubblica has named Daphne Caruana Galizia person of the year. The decision by La Repubblica was announced in a front page editorial by Roberto Saviano who said Daphne was killed because she understood the illegal flows of money happening through Malta and she understood this was not someone doing something wrong but an entire [...]

‘Sibt Pulizija Laburist’

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2017-12-20T17:35:58+01:00Wed, 20th Dec '17, 17:35|

That immortal phrase that then deputy Labour leader, now judge, Toni Abela was caught using on tape was the thin end of the wedge driven deep in this country to separate justice from tribal convenience. That time Toni Abela was speaking about how best to manage drug distribution from a Labour Party property that by [...]

BREAKING: Keith Schembri frequently called FIAU to call off investigations into Pilatus and other banks, inside source told Daphne Caruana Galizia

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2017-12-20T11:32:50+01:00Wed, 20th Dec '17, 11:32|

Peter Caruana Galizia testified in court today his wife had told him her source inside the FIAU informed her Keith Schembri frequently made calls to the FIAU to tell them not to investigate Pilatus Bank and other private banks. Peter Caruana Galizia was testifying this morning in the case instituted by his family asking the [...]

Must crooks hand themselves in before anything happens?

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2017-12-19T22:43:03+01:00Tue, 19th Dec '17, 22:30|

It is logical and predictable for Labour's parliamentary group to use Adrian Delia as their alibi when confronted by the revelations made by Daphne Caruana Galizia about them. Joseph Muscat will go for a tu quoque moral equivalence retort with much less ammunition. The unanswered accusations Daphne Caruana Galizia made on Adrian Delia are serious [...]

Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?

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2017-12-19T20:15:00+01:00Tue, 19th Dec '17, 20:15|

This was the central theme of Chris Said's excellent speech in Parliament today. This wasn't just any Shakespearean reference. It wasn't just a smart historical link to Henry II and Thomas a Beckett. This was a metaphor. It was the building of a scenario that we have all slowly started to put together as information [...]

And sure enough, they give themselves a blow job

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2017-12-19T19:49:36+01:00Tue, 19th Dec '17, 19:49|

The faint hope that Parliament would instruct the prime minister to order an independent inquiry into the findings and allegations of impropriety and corruption committed by people in public office was very quickly crushed by a government majority that continues to protect the Panama Gang from any investigation into their crimes. In place of Chris [...]

GUEST POST: Presidential humbug

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2017-12-19T19:22:59+01:00Tue, 19th Dec '17, 19:22|

This guest post is by Salvu Felice Pace. I often ask myself when I read any of President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca’s speeches, is she speaking on behalf of her government or is she just commenting on whatever subject she wants to highlight. On a State occasion such as the celebration of Malta’s Republic Day, conventional [...]

The creaking wheels of justice

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2017-12-19T19:02:18+01:00Tue, 19th Dec '17, 19:02|

At last the evidence of the execution of the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia has today started being heard. There will be many hurdles ahead but the process has painfully started. But the more important initiative being taken today in the aftermath of Daphne Caruana Galizia's assassination is happening up the road from the Courts [...]

Iċ-Ċiniż was in the Court building less than 48 hours after the killing he’s accused of committing

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2017-12-18T23:48:31+01:00Mon, 18th Dec '17, 23:48|

George de Giorgio, known as iċ-Ċiniż, was in the Court building on the 18th of October, 2017, less than 48 hours after the explosion he is accused of detonating that brutally assassinated Daphne Caruana Galizia. He was appearing as a respondent in a civil dispute against him over property filed by a company owned by [...]

No one today thinks our institutions are working well

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2017-12-18T22:25:31+01:00Mon, 18th Dec '17, 22:25|

I don't think there's design in the current chaos in court in the prosecution of three alleged hired assassins accused of killing Daphne Caruana Galizia. I don't think they have a planned strategy to go through all Magistrates until the time limit to indict them expires and they can walk free. I don't think Magistrates [...]

Labour candidate’s husband alleged to have helped Russia spread propaganda in the West

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2017-12-18T21:29:32+01:00Mon, 18th Dec '17, 21:29|

Read this article in The Guardian today. It's about Kevin Ellul Bonici, husband of Labour candidate Sharon Ellul Bonnici and her replacement on Nigel Farage's staff in the European Parliament. He had been in trouble for distributing Russian propaganda with MEPs delivering books slandering the President of Lithuania, a critic of Vladimir Putin. Now he [...]

Third time lucky?

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2017-12-18T16:44:04+01:00Mon, 18th Dec '17, 16:44|

Magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit will be presiding on the third attempt to start the compilation of evidence against the three men accused of executing the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Maybe this is the right time. We live in hope. One will expect the lawyers for the accused to remind Magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit that [...]

Two magistrates later

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2017-12-18T13:23:38+01:00Mon, 18th Dec '17, 12:13|

A second Magistrate has today recused herself from hearing the compilation of evidence against the three persons accused of executing the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Today is the thirteenth day of a 30-day limit of time within which a Magistrate must decide there is a prima facie case against them. If that does not [...]

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