joseph muscat's close friend and chief of staff, keith skem bree and malta's energy minister, conrad mittsyt she'd found, daphne shared her reporting in a radio interview. >> they expected never to be discovered, but they were discovered. and the whole thing erupted. however, the prime minister is backing both his chief of staff and his energy minister. >> there was nothing illegal about government ministers having holdings in a central american tax haven. but the exposure put muscat's government on the offensive. >> when she came out with the story of panama, the secret companies of the chief of staff of the prime minister and the right-hand man of the prime minister, people derided her. the government mocked her, ridiculed her, demonized her. >> reporter: for daphne, attacks on her character came with the territory. >> when you look at my story, it's a classic, classic case of scapegoating on a national, nationwide scale. >> reporter: and sometimes it was more than just insults. >> daphne's house was burned down. her two dogs were killed. she faced threats and harassment for most of her a