REVERSAL OF FORTUNE FOR ‘PORK BARREL QUEEN’? Duterte’s SolGen moves to acquit Napoles in illegal detention of Luy

by Malou Mangahas and Nancy C. Carvajal WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH, 2017 OSG Manifestations,Napoles Acquittal Jan 2017, PCIJ THE SENATE is holding a hearing on yet another corruption case this week,…

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A trail of anonymous money | Fundraisers scooped P383M from secret donors for Binay

GERMELINA I. Taylor, Wilbert T. Lee, Danilo E. Suarez, and Teddie E. Rivera were among the 10 biggest donors of then presidential candidate Jejomar C. Binay. The four alone gave Binay P172.3 million altogether – except the money wasn’t really theirs.

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his inaugural speech on Thursday, June 30. (Photo by Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines)

Campaign Finance Office in drift, headless | P334M from only 13 donors funded Duterte’s presidency

THE IMAGE Rodrigo R. Duterte projected of his 2016 presidential campaign was that it was one run on a shoestring budget. It supposedly had no donors with vested interests, and that included big businessmen and mining firms.

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