Senator Jinngoy Estrada’s privileged speech before the Senate on September 25, this year was a simple “squid tactic.” He tried to muddle the issue to avoid responsibility in directing his PDAF allocations to the non-existing NGOs of the controversial con-artist, Janet Napoles. His speech was beamed towards the same audience who voted him and members…
Lawyer Lorna K’s plea for AMLC’s (Anti-Money Laundering Council) freeze order to be tempered with justice seems hollow and puny. She was upset that the agency froze not only her client’s various accounts but accounts of the children and their ATMs as well. She expressed fear that the children cannot go to school and could starve because of…
Janet Napoles is in custody, but rather than treating her as a prisoner, she is being treated like a rock star, with protection from PNP’s special force and an air-conditioned cubicle at Camp Crame. After almost 2 weeks evading the warrant of arrest for serious illegal detention of her relative whistleblower Ben Hur Luy, she willingly came out from her…
Heaven weeps uncontrollably over the unabated corruption in Metro Manila that its tears flooded in “biblical proportions” its major thoroughfares. In my own sense of irony I viewed with endless trepidation the sight of my 24 year old daughter coming home early morning from a midnight shift of 12 or sometimes 16 hours to make honest money…
Netizens were up in arms against the lavish lifestyle of a 23-year old Filipina, Jeannie C. Napoles. According to Rappler, she has in her name a unit in Ritz-Carlton Tower, L.A. California, worth about $2 million; she parties a lot, accessorizes herself with expensive designer bags, shoes and gowns and jewelries. It looks like we have…
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