Marcos bares use of stimulus fund to buy CJ impeach votes

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Now while Jinggoy Estrada spoke of the P50-million “incentive” the senators received after Corona’s conviction, which no one has denied, what about the bulk of the P24 billion that was supposed to have been released for the entire Corona operation? How much of it was spent to procure the 188 congressmen-signatories to the unverified Articles of Impeachment? And how much to move the defective complaint through the Senate and to motivate those senator-judges to act like prosecutors, and finally to convict the respondent on the basis of illegally procured evidence to support a non-impeachable offense? Wasn’t the P50-million just an additional bonus to the senators?


Prior to Estrada’s expose, Sen. Marcos had revealed the DBM’s "questionable release of P475 million lump "sum allocations to six senator-judges through the Department of Agrarian Reform, supposedly to support their “livelihood projects nationwide.”

The DBM, according to"" Marcos"", released the amount in six special allot release orders (SAROs) all dated Dec. 6, 2011, to be made available through notices of cash allocation (NCAs) much later. Marcos said he never requested any additional PDAF, and was surprised when he learned of the six SAROs to the six senator-judges at the trial. It was obviously intended to induce them to convict Corona at the proper time, Marcos felt.

During the recess that preceded the final sessions of the trial, the Senate grapevine buzzed with stories about a famous lunch hosted by a senator in her residence and attended by several others, where they reportedly discussed the “spoils” of the trial. Has the truth which Corona said history would ultimately reveal come too soon? And will it now embolden the ousted Chief Justice to bring his case to the judgment of his peers?

It may be that a new chapter in our history has begun, or is about to begin.

Can the pork scandal undo Corona

a can full of worms is slowly unraveling ......

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Bribe/present/additional-fund-just-after-the-impeachment or whatever they may call it, it doesn't sound appropriate.
I am enjoying this, more like a trilogy to me.
I. Congress
II. Senate
III. <abangan ang susunod na kabanata>

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Cooking Noynoy’s lump ‘pork’ books


Noynoy and his Budget secretary thought they could get away with a public explanation on the additional P1.2-billion “pork” given to senators, as disclosed by Sen. Jinggoy Estrada in a privilege speech last week.
They came up with a press statement, with amounts handed to senators, to prove that there was no bribe involved in the conviction of then Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Earlier, Budget Secretary Butch Abad stated, almost immediately after the Estrada bombshell, that the release of the additional P50 million for each senator came from prior unreleased pork allocations given out to the Senate.
Abad must have been alerted to the fact that the giving of additional pork to members of Congress was no longer in practice, unlike in the time of Gloria Arroyo and her Budget secretary Andaya.
Abad therefore tried to correct that mistake by coming up with a press statement detailing how much each senator got by way of the “stimulus” fund or the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) fund. Some got more than the others, such as then finance panel chairman, now Senate President Franklin Drilon, with a hefty P100 million and Sen. Chiz Escudero, with P100 million too.
It was never explained by Abad why Drilon of the Senate finance committee and Escudero, then Justice panel chairman, got P100 million each of the “stimulus” fund and why Malacañang gave this “authority” to have the DAP funds released. Abad can’t just release funds without the approval of Noynoy. This stimulus fund or DAP program is apparently non-existent and surfaced just recently.


Neither did Abad provide a credible explanation of the fact that, if such were truly the so-called stimulus fund, why hand this over to the senators and not directly to the implementing agencies?
But Noynoy and Abad made a huge mistake when the latter gave out the sums each senators got: They included the name of a senator who voted to acquit Corona: Joker Arroyo, who was claimed to have obtained P47 million on the DAP.
It was clear that Joker’s name and P47 million he supposedly got was added for Noynoy and Abad to show the public that the senators weren’t bribed to convict Corona, as Joker voted to acquit him.
Joker slammed Abad and his “massaged” press release, pointing out that the P47 million was in the GAA, or the national budget and that this is the first time he has heard of the DAP.
He then claimed that Abad and Noynoy cooked the books, so to speak, and accused them of not only lying, but falsifying legislative documents, for which they are criminally liable.
It has also been reported that even the House members, got an additional P15 million each from the DAP funds, as admitted by Abad yesterday.


But what is also of public interest is the fact that Sen. Bongbong Marcos, some weeks back, had exposed that the P100-million pork attributed to him that was released, was falsified, and that this was under the DAP program, after the Commission on Audit (CoA) questioned him on this P100-million pork barrel claimed to be under Marcos’ name.
Apparently, this too, was falsified by who else, if not Noynoy and his Budget secretary?
This should bring up another charge against Noynoy, Abad and his Palace boys, Not only are they into falsifying legislative documents, they even come up with fake documents stating that such huge amounts of pork are in the account of the senators’ pork, using the DAP funds and even, presumably, faked memorandums of agreement and special allotment release orders.
Public funds that are the “lump sum” allocations of Noynoy, over which he has full discretionary powers to disburse to whoever and whatever reason he wants to have these released, may be Noynoy and his administration’s “tuwid na daan na sobrang baluktot” way of siphoning public funds from lump sums of Noynoy, to private pockets, since the documents are faked.
And all of this very dirty way of making money for themselves by cooking up the presidential lump sum books is for the Liberal Party to reign supreme after 2016, while pocketing public funds and not to forget, to destroy the competition, which is why all government resources and agencies are being prostituted by Noynoy to go after Jinggoy Estrada, and the rest of the opposition.
And Noynoy and Abad? Why, they will be absolved again — and by the prime mover himself — Noynoy.


http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/...ump-pork-books


this administration is very much crooked or much more crooked than other past administration . enough of daang matuwid .!!