Detained Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada was elected on Wednesday, July 29, as chairman of the Senate Committee on Electoral Reforms and People 's Participation, while Senator Rodante Marcoleta, also detained, was named head of the Senate Committee on Tourism. Senate Majority Leader Juan...
Malacañang has rejected Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano 's claim that the government was practicing "selective justice," saying the courts—not politicians—decide whether detained senators may be granted bail or participate in official proceedings. Presidential Communications...
Senator-judge Robin Padilla 's old-fashioned insult toward House prosecutors Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon and Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima earned him a dignified--but still punchy--response from Ridon. The tit-for-tat stemmed from Padilla comments on the...
The Sandiganbayan has ordered Senator Rodante Marcoleta to explain why he should not be preventively suspended from office while facing plunder charges before the anti-graft court. In a two-page order dated July 22, the Sandiganbayan Third Division directed Marcoleta, through his counsel, to...
Sen. Rodante Marcoleta pleaded not guilty to plunder and violation of Presidential Decree (PD) No. 46 before the Sandiganbayan Third Division on Wednesday, July 22. Marcoleta entered his pleas during his arraignment in the two cases filed against him before the anti-graft court. He pleaded not...
Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero, Impeachment Court Presiding Officer, on Monday, July 20, referred Senator-judge Rodante Marcoleta’s request to be allowed to vote in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte to the Senate. This, after Escudero disclosed during the seventh (7th) day...
For Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano, detained Senators Jinggoy Estrada and Rodante Marcoleta are "political prisoners". Cayetano had this to say during a Facebook livestream on Saturday, July 18, when one of his viewers asked whether there was a chance Marcoleta would be freed. "I have...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson on Thursday, July 16 commended the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) for submitting an objective medical assessment of Sen. Rodante Marcoleta to the Sandiganbayan. The Sandiganbayan had ordered a separate medical examination for...
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...
The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) confirmed on Wednesday, July 15, that Sen. Rodante Marcoleta is now under its custody following the commitment order issued by the Third Division of the Sandiganbayan where he is facing a case of plunder. BJMP spokesperson Supt. Jayrex...
Senator Rodante Marcoleta was ordered transferred to the New Quezon City Jail Male Dormitory on Wednesday, July 15, after the Sandiganbayan found that his medical condition no longer warranted continuous hospitalization. The Sandiganbayan Third Division issued the order after considering the...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) sees nothing wrong with what is deemed as second opinion on the medical condition of Sen. Rodante Marcoleta who has been confined in a hospital at Camp Crame in Quezon City since his arrest on July 6 for a case of plunder. PNP spokesperson Col. Allen Rae Co...
