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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Jose Dominic F. Clavano IV
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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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The case for a Philippine RICO
The idea is not new here. Anti-racketeering bills have been filed since the 1990s but they lapsed for want of urgency.
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Recantation is not an eraser
A retraction can be bought or coerced as easily as testimony can, often more easily, because by then the witness is isolated, exposed, and out of money.
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A fugitive’svanishing refuge
From that moment he loses standing: he cannot participate, cannot seek relief, and regains his footing only by surrendering.
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OMB is not a Manila office
A genuine fight against corruption, then, must be a whole-of-nation effort. It needs provincial offices with teeth, digital public bidding that closes the room…
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The Garbage We Bury
Documentary regularity and physical reality are often two different things, and it is in the gap between them that corruption lives.
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