[1] She was appointed on 9 June 2017 in the second cabinet of Joseph Muscat and reconfirmed by new Prime Minister Robert Abela before resigning one week later on 20 January 2020 and replaced with Clint Camilleri.
[4] It found that Caruana released a €15,000 contract to her friend Daniel Bogdanović to draft a report on ways to improve the National Sport School.
The report also found that there was a "concentrated effort to hide Bogdanović's incompetence"[5] and the work delivered was actually done by Paul Debattista, one of Caruana's consultants.
[11] Within the second week following resignation, Caruana was employed full-time in the Victims Support Agency at the Ministry of Home Affairs on a salary of €40,000, alongside a termination-benefit payment of €30,000, by the disgraced former prime minister Joseph Muscat [12].
The Maltese Government and Caruana refused to comment on how she was visibly seen continuing her private law practise employment whilst simultaneously working full-time at the Ministry of Home Affairs [13].