Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 18:27:42 +0000
Re-electionist Sen. Cynthia Villar topped the 2019 senatorial race dominated by administration-backed candidates as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) finished the counting of all votes for the midterm elections.
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Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 13:44:33 +0000
Former Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. and former presidential aide Christopher Bong Go vowed to El Shaddai supporters that they would render “trustworthy service.”
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Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 23:19:45 +0000
Sen. Leila de Lima said her situation must not be compared with that of the former senators who were detained because of charges that they had pocketed pork barrel funds, as she defended the resolution of US lawmakers calling for her release.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:22:17 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The Sandiganbayan has upheld the plunder conviction of suspected pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim-Napoles, citing lack of merit in her motion for reconsideration.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 21:40:44 +0000
Sen. Panfilo Lacson found himself battling the Hydra-like pork barrel system
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 21:48:58 +0000
The Office of the Ombudsman has urged the Sandiganbayan to compel former Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla to pay P124.5 million in civil damages to the national treasury, despite his acquittal in a plunder case over the use of his pork barrel funds. In a 17-page motion to the antigraft court’s First Division on Jan. 28, […]
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:23:11 +0000
Saying a “nation loses its soul when the law becomes an instrument of injustice,” former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Monday described the acquittal of former Sen. Ramon Revilla Jr. of plunder charges as the latest “legal abomination” plaguing Philippine society.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 23:08:23 +0000
Should former Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. be made to pay back part of the P124.5 million in kickbacks from his pork barrel fund despite his acquittal in the plunder case against him?
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 09:53:22 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The acquittal of former Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. in his plunder trial gives the “wrong signal,” Sen. Leila de Lima said on Saturday. “At a time when pork barrel is making a comeback in Congress with the House giving Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s district P2.4 billion, the acquittal of former Sen. Bong […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 11:45:38 +0000
The acquittal of former Senator Ramon ‘Bong’ Revilla Jr. of plunder for the pork barrel scam can no longer be appealed.
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