End of pork?

[twEATer]

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Nalingaw lang ko aning instagram pic ni Krizzy Kalerqui dah.

[Tech Guru]

kinahanglan man nang pork barrel ba.. ubsaon nalang kung nay calamities etc sa ilang mga districts, unsa may gamiton. how about other projects? tarungon lang ug gamit gud. actually gamay ra gani nang ilang pork barrel for the whole district. dapat dugangan pa na

[cliff_drew]

Hope to see Napoles, et al. here --> Cases Filed | Pera ng Bayan

Soon or sooner. I'm just hoping.

[Rakizta]

DOJ to file charges against legislators in pork barrel scam

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Justice is to file cases “in a few weeks” against lawmakers involved in the alleged misuse of public funds, but the investigation is not about to end anytime soon because of the massive scale of alleged schemes to divert legislators’ pork barrel and other funds, according to Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.
De Lima said lawmakers were among those being investigated by the DOJ and the National Bureau of Investigation in connection with the funneling of public funds to bogus non-government organizations for fictitious projects. Some of the bogus NGOs were allegedly run by businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles, who has denied involvement in such a scheme.
“The NBI has been validating, double-checking the accuracy of the list and we will file charges in the next few weeks where there is sufficient evidence,” De Lima told reporters at the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
De Lima said the cases would most probably be filed with the Office of the Ombudsman, which is conducting a parallel probe.
But De Lima said the magnitude of the alleged scheme was such the probe would not end even if cases would be filed.
“In other words, this investigation would go on for a long time because of the massive scope of the alleged scam or the magnitude of the alleged scam,” she said.
There is also a “bigger and enhanced” team involved in the investigation into the scheme. De Lima noted that Napoles’ camp earlier indicated that it did not want the probe to be handled by the same team involved in the rescue of Benhur Luy, who had disclosed the alleged scheme of Napoles, his erstwhile employer.
She said investigators and lawyers from other NBI divisions, such as the anti-fraud unit and the legal office, had been assigned to the investigation.
De Lima denied that the investigation was zeroing in on members of the opposition.
“There is no such standard of segregating or separating the opposition from the administration. We don’t care. In the ongoing probe, it’s never a criterion,” she said. “Maybe later when we start filing charges, you would know or see that it’s not at all a benchmark, and the political color of the subject of the investigation does not matter.”
With regard to the 97 mayors the DOJ had summoned, De Lima said investigators just want to hear from them whether or not they had anything to do with the request for financial assistance sourced from the Malampaya gas fund.
The NBI’s whistleblowers had told investigators that the requests from mayors were fabricated and that P900 million that was intended to help towns ravaged by typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng went to Napoles or non-governmental organizations identified with her.
“What the mayors would say could be corroborative evidence,” De Lima said.
She noted that a few of the mayors earlier already told the Commission on Audit and the NBI that they had not made any such requests.
Meanwhile, De Lima said she was leaving it up to the House to decide when to hold its own investigation into the alleged scam.
Speaker Feliciano Belmonte earlier said he would rather that the authorities complete their probe first before the legislators look into the issue.
Belmonte said he would make sure the House would fully cooperate with the NBI in the investigation and would make any document available to investigators.
But as to getting lawmakers to attend the investigation, he said, this would be up to the individual concerned.
Related stories:
De Lima invites 97 mayors to shed light on P900M fund scam
P200M agri fund traced to Napoles group
28 solons linked to scam
Malampaya fund lost P900M in JLN racket


DOJ to file charges against legislators in pork barrel scam | Inquirer News

tanan tanan gyud ha apil na ang administrasyon nga lawmakers dili pilion ang file an og kaso .......

[centaurus]

pork barrel: one main reason nganu mulangsad pagka politiko

[twEATer]

Hope to see Napoles, et al. here --> Cases Filed | Pera ng Bayan

Soon or sooner. I'm just hoping.

OT: Naa lagi si Larrazabal na.
Cebu-based Medical Doctor charged with tax evasion for undeclared PHILHEALTH income | Pera ng Bayan

[Rakizta]

Pork scam moves Tagle to tears



Repent and open your eyes to the poor’s misery.
Calling it an “intricate web” of corruption, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle on Tuesday urged politicians and others involved in the alleged P10-billion pork barrel scam to go to the slums and experience what it was like to be poor.
Holding back tears, Tagle called on the culprits to repent, adding that they might have dipped their fingers in the nation’s coffers because they did not know what the poor were going through every day.
Tagle, who usually declined to answer questions about politics since becoming archbishop in 2012, talked emotionally about the pork barrel scam.
“Whoever is involved there, I appeal to you, visit a community of informal settlers … walk there at night and you will see in the sidewalk the families who open these cartons on which they would sleep,” Tagle said in a press conference at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila.
“Maybe if you could hold their hands, your hearts will also be touched … Sometimes, I think those who thought about doing this were able to do so because the poor were absent in their lives. Maybe they don’t see or refuse to see,” he said.
“But if you still see and still have empathy, maybe you would still be horrified and feel compassion,” he added.
“First of all, who would not be shocked about these reports. While it is still being investigated, (you could see) the magnitude of the money involved,” Tagle said.
“And then every day, you would see the machinations, whether true or not, it seems that it’s a very intricate web that reached this far. Who will not be horrified?” he said.
Big scandals forgotten
“What kind of Filipino who loves his country would not be bothered, especially if he is a follower of Jesus. Your heart would be crushed further. Can someone do that to his fellow man?” Tagle asked.
“Could those behind this stomach this huge damage to the nation? That is why it is only right that this should be investigated … We have heard many other big scandals in the past but these were buried and forgotten when a new issue came up,” he added.

Tagle called on the culprits to repent and let their “good side” shine through.
“I believe that there is goodness in every person so I’m appealing to that part of every person. You can be better than this. And you cannot deny it. There’s a goodness in you which comes from God. Just let it come and you will be free and happy,” he said.
Another archbishop
Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles also on Tuesday called on Filipinos to press for a thorough investigation of Janet Lim-Napoles, the alleged mastermind of the P10-billion pork barrel scam, in the Senate just like what it did with former Chief Justice Renato Corona and retired Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia.
Arguelles said Napoles should be called to the Senate and face an exhaustive investigation by lawmakers, which he added should be aired live for transparency and so that “the public can be the judge too.”
“Let all citizens who love this country plead with the senators, if they indeed care for us and for the truth: Please call Janet Napoles to the Senate and [let her] face a thorough investigation like what they did to Angelo Reyes, General Garcia and Chief Justice Corona,” Arguelles said.
Silence in the Senate
The senior prelate was referring to the investigations that the Senate had conducted on the late former Armed Forces chief of staff Angelo Reyes over the supposed corruption and distribution of a million-peso payola to the military brass and the plunder cases against Corona and Garcia.
Arguelles also said he did not trust the investigation being carried out by the National Bureau of Investigation that was why he was appealing to the senators to take action.
“The NBI investigation can be manipulated so it should be up to the Senate to open this plunder case,” he said, describing the grave misuse of the pork barrel, the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) as a “heinous crime” against the Filipino poor.
“Our Filipino poor could have benefited from the PDAF,” he said in a text message to reporters Tuesday.
He also wondered why senators were quiet all of a sudden on the issue. “Do they have something to be afraid of that Napoles might reveal? Why all of a sudden are they all quiet on this P10-billion pork barrel scam?” he said.
San Beda law dean
Fr. Ranhillo Aquino, dean of San Beda law school, proposed Tuesday that the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) create an independent legal group that would serve as a watchdog against corruption in government as part of the Church’s advocacy for good governance.
“After a while, this issue [on the pork barrel scam] will slowly end and we don’t want that to happen. Even in the Church, the advocacy against corruption is not sustained so why not the CBCP have a legal luminary study the issue [and] investigate?” Aquino said over Church-run Radio Veritas on Tuesday.


Pork scam moves Tagle to tears | Inquirer News

kinahanglan bitaw jud ning thorough investigation .pagka dako sa kwarta nga nakawat sa kaban ng bayan

[H.Wolowitz]

tinuod jud ni kay ni.react naman si Cardinal Tagle. Oras na para makulong ang dapat makulong.

[amingb]

akong pangutana ani :::

ASA MAN SI ABNOY ??!?!?! NGANONG PERTING HILUMA MAN NIYA ABOUT ANI ??!! nganong dili man cya pareho ka isug adtong time na iyang gukud si CJ CORONA ?? pareho raman ta ni corruption .....

asa naman ka abnoy ?? imo ra gyud diay pilion imong gukurun noh ?!?!?!? nyahahahahahahha

Power Struggle man to nga issue bro ug HLI .. walay may corruption involve ato ... kay hindrance daw si Corona sa Progress

[masakiton]

lisod wala on..
sentate ug congress = impeachment body