Ombudsman slaps 9 graft raps vs Tarlac solon
The Office of the Ombudsman has filed nine counts of graft against Tarlac 3rd District Representative Noel Rivera over his alleged conflict of interest in…
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The Office of the Ombudsman has filed nine counts of graft against Tarlac 3rd District Representative Noel Rivera over his alleged conflict of interest in…
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In a single decade, the confidential and intelligence funds of one office grew more than thirteenfold, without any corresponding national threat serious enough…
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The impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte has exposed weaknesses in the government’s rules on confidential and intelligence funds, prompting calls…
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The investigator, who got too close to the flame — like the moth in Jose Rizal’s story that burned its wings and fell — was relegated to being an adviser.
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Malacañang on Wednesday dismissed online claims that Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa had been arrested, describing it as a diversionary tactic of allies of…
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Government rules governing the liquidation of confidential and intelligence funds neither explicitly allow nor prohibit the use of aliases in supporting…
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Presumptions often carry a stronger implication of probability or likelihood. For example, when someone is presumed innocent until proven guilty, this belief…
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Government rules governing the liquidation of confidential and intelligence funds neither explicitly allow nor prohibit the use of aliases in supporting…
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Former Public Works and Highways Secretary Manuel Bonoan had discretion over a P10-billion lump-sum fund set aside supposedly for lawmakers seeking…
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A Commission on Audit (CoA) official acknowledged before the Senate impeachment court on Tuesday that no government rule prohibited the Office of the Vice…
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The defense team of Vice President Sara Duterte on Tuesday presented a 2014 Department of Budget and Management (DBM) document before the Senate impeachment…
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‘The submission of receipts, bills or commercial invoices in support of disbursements from these funds for rental of safe houses, purchase of meals or supplies…
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Vice President Sara Duterte spent nearly P30 million in seven months in 2023 during her stint as secretary of the Department of Education (DepEd) to deter the…
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When the powerful are released and the witnesses are silenced, the message is unmistakable: the system protects its own.
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Perhaps Bongbong felt he could not begin the administration by telling her no. That’s the one.
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These days, the political babel shatters illusions that enough is being done for the people by those they elected to lead them toward progress.
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If P612.5 million allocated for national security cannot be satisfactorily accounted for through even the most basic standards of documentary integrity, then…
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House prosecutor Lorna Kapunan described Vice President Sara Duterte's alleged misuse of confidential funds as "a scam" during Tuesday's…
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