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Tag: Priority Development Assistance Fund

Lacson vs Diokno on pork barrel

If there is anyone in this country who has the right to talk about the issue of legislators’ involvement in the preparation of the...

DSWD draws flak

LAWMAKERS on Thursday ordered Social Welfare Secretary Judy Taguiwalo to explain her department’s Memorandum 9 that was released in the wake of the Supreme...

The screwdriver

For the first time, I think the long-running word war between President Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Leila de Lima is leading somewhere. And I’m...

Ex-lawmakers to face trial for endorsing bogus NGOs

Two former Cebu lawmakers will face trial after the Office of the Ombudsman found that they endorsed an unqualified non-government organization to undertake a...

Ombudsman spared from probe of DAP-PDAF implementors

The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a petition seeking to compel the Office of the Ombudsman and Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales to investigate and if...

Ombudsman OKs filing of charges vs ex-solon

THE Office of the Ombudsman upheld on Friday the filing of charges against a former lawmaker from Albay—Reno Lim—for the alleged anomalous utilization of his Priority...

SC clears way for Napoles trial

The Supreme Court has paved the way for the Sandiganbayan to proceed with the trial of the criminal cases filed against suspected pork barrel...

Ombudsman indicts former lawmaker for PDAF misuse

THE Office of the Ombudsman on Friday indicted ex-La Union representative Thomas Dumpit Jr. for the questionable utilization of his Priority Development Assistance Fund...

Go after Aquino, leftists dare Rody

A LEFTIST group issued a first-100-days challenge to the presumptive president, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, to prosecute “big-time criminals” led by his predecessor,...

Running scared

It’s confirmed – the yellow administration is running scared after the latest surveys showed Senator Bong Bong Marcos or BBM emerging as the top...

CoA: Recover P443-m PDAF coursed through PhilForest

THE Commission on Audit maintains that the government must recover P443.29 million in Priority Development Assistance Fund funneled by various legislators through the Philippine...

‘Anti-corruption drive under Aquino, De Lima a mere political gimmick’

The party-list group Sanlakas hit the selective and sluggish progress of the anti-graft cases in connection with the Priority Development Assistance Fund  and accused...

Witness counters Tuason claim

A Senate employee on Monday testified before the Sandiganbayan that she often saw Ruby Tuason at the Senate building in Pasay City in 2008,...

Witnesses’ lawyer tags 14 more  pork scam operators

Lawyer Levito Baligod, legal counsel for at least two state witnesses in  plunder and graft charges filed against  lawmakers,  has started filing cases against...
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