Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon has echoed his fellow House officials ' demand for authorities to unmask the possible masterminds behind the supposed lies peddled by the so-called 18 "maleta boys". Four of the 18 former security aides who had executed affidavits concerning alleged cash...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson says a public official who induces another person to commit perjury may be treated as a principal in the commission of the crime under the conspiracy theory. In a statement Sunday, Aug. 23, Lacson underscored that such individual may also be subject to perpetual...
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said Saturday, Aug. 22, that detained Senator Rodante Marcoleta and former lawmaker Mike Defensor could face a complaint for subornation of perjury over the alleged “coached” testimony of former Marine Orly Guteza before the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee last...
The mild-mannered and soft-spoken House prosecutor Iloilo 3rd district Rep. Lorenz Defensor is never one to gloat. But he couldn 't help but point out that Vice President Sara Duterte 's defense team hasn 't been able to shake the prosecution 's witnesses so far in the lady...
Former lawmaker Mike Defensor and businessmen Joseph Espiritu and Aristotle Viray, who are co-accused of Senator Rodante Marcoleta in a plunder case, pleaded not guilty during their arraignment before the Sandiganbayan on Wednesday, July 15. The arraignment in Criminal Case No. E-SB-CRM-26-0018...
Amando Virgil Ligutan--the prosecutor who has been keeping the defense of Vice President Sara Duterte in check with his propitious objections --has earned the respect and admiration of his fellow prosecution panel members in the ongoing Senate impeachment trial. This is not to say that Ligutan didn...
The Sandiganbayan issued on Wednesday, July 8, another arrest warrant against Sen. Rodante Marcoleta and former congressman Mike Defensor for a case of violation of Presidential Decree (PD) 46. PD 46 penalizes public officials and employees for receiving gifts and private individuals to give gifts...
Senator Francis "Chiz" Escudero has been "very fair" so far in his capacity as presiding officer of the Senate impeachment court in the ongoing trial against Vice President Sara Duterte. House prosecutor Iloilo 3rd district Rep. Lorenz Defensor gave this assessment even as news reports on the trial...
The House prosecution panel has vowed to keep up the same level of "energy" that it has shown throughout Vice President Sara Duterte 's Senate impeachment trial. Thus, said solon-prosecutor Iloilo 3rd district Rep. Lorenz Defensor, as he patted the team 's back for its performance...
Businessman Aristotle Baluyot Viray, one of the co-accused of Senator Rodante Marcoleta in the plunder case over the alleged P75 million in undeclared donations, appeared before the Sandiganbayan Third Division on Tuesday, July 7, to return the warrant of arrest issued against him. Viray became...
Senator Rodante Marcoleta will be committed to the New Quezon City Jail in Payatas, where former senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. and Senator Jinggoy Estrada are currently detained, after the Sandiganbayan Third Division ordered his arrest over a plunder case lodged against him. According to...
Former congressman Mike Defensor and another co-accused of Sen. Rodante Marcoleta in a plunder case were already arrested in a coffee shop in Quezon City a few hours after the arrest warrant was issued by the Sandiganbayan, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jonvic...
