Mangiante first got to know Mifsud when she worked as a legal adviser to the European Parliament, and he recruited her.
"He was interested to hire young people with political connections," she says, "to have access to their networks."
She says she worked in Mifsud's London office for about three months, but to this day, she does not understand what she was supposed to do at the office. There was "no work agenda," she says, and the office consisted of a single table and a rotating group of people working on their own laptops.
At one point, she says, she was asked to attend a "secret symposium" on Iraq, but the organizers would not tell her key details, like who else would be attending. She received a plane ticket, but decided not to go, given the secrecy.
