Disgraced Claude Palmero, ex-Monaco Palace bean-counter, egregiously interfered with the Prince’s intelligence service.
He did this because the intelligence service, in coordination with Monaco’s police department, uncovered his wrongdoing and corruption while he was mis-serving Prince Albert.
Palmero correctly understood that as long as our service existed as Albert’s eyes and ears, he could not continue to get away with all the crap he and his cohort Thierry Lacoste (Albert’s Paris-based lawyer) were getting away with, taking advantage, as they did, of the Prince’s weak spine and lack of leadership skills.
With this in mind, let us deconstruct a recent interview given to the French media by Palmero’s lawyer, Marie Alix Canu-Bernard.
“As it stands,” says Maitre Can-Bernard, “Claude Palmero will not talk to the press.”
I understand, through my own unique grapevine, that Palmero may indeed be squawking to the media, albeit as a “deep background” unnamed source.
“If he were to be summoned by a judge,” adds Canu-Bernard, “he will obviously answer all the questions asked.”
Hint, hint—a clear threat to Albert, who, most certainly, is no innocent in this matter.
Referring to Dossiers du Rocher, which hacked emails between Palmero, Lacoste and two other senior figures in Monaco, Canu-Bernard states that such emails “try to tell a story that does not exist.”
Lousy spin. The emails very clearly reflect a pattern of corruption involving Palmero and Lacoste all the way back to 2006, when the Prince should have taken action and eliminated the crooked bean-counter and legal chiseler from his crony list.
Instead, it took Albert 17 years and a batch of emails to terminate this pair of cretins.
Even then, Albert took action only because the media did not buy his spin on this scandal and he finally understood that the long-running misconduct of Palmero and Lacoste would seriously blemish his own legacy.