The trolls are not free speech
The people we go after are often among the wealthiest in the country, and they don’t only hire lawyers; they hire networks.
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Jose Dominic F. Clavano IV
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Many burdens on business are not caused by corrupt individuals but by poorly designed rules. The Ombudsman’s role is not only to punish wrongdoing but to…
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A safe door for honest business
An office like this succeeds or fails on one question: will people trust it enough to come forward? That is why whistleblower protection is not a feature of…
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Ombudsman’s receipts
The warning against paid comments and fake accounts is right, and it binds the Office to stay well clear of such tactics itself.
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Investment Ombudsman, anyone?
An economy built on padded contracts, ghost projects, and kickbacks is not a strong economy. It is running on borrowed time.
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Making the world smaller for the corrupt
For too long, agencies have treated information as something to guard rather than share. Records sit in one office away from the office that needs them. That…
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Only we can reach the child.
The influence of social media is not primarily a legal phenomenon. It is cultural: it lives in what we normalize, what we notice, and whether the friend who…
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Art of the Information
The craft lies in the statement of the acts or omissions. This is where months of preliminary investigation and thousands of pages of documents and affidavits…
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Hospital bed as holding cell
The revised Rules of Criminal Procedure under deliberation include custodial hearings — an open-court determination of house arrest, hospital arrest, or…
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