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By pleading guilty to a lesser offense, the treasurer of Caraga town in Davao Oriental evaded a possible longer jail term in his graft case.After his Sandiganbayan arraignment and before the prosecution could start presenting its evidence, treasurer Jaime D. Labasano filed a plea barganing agreement...

The Sandiganbayan did not allow former Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) comptroller and retired Maj. Gen. Carlos F. Garcia to evade the payment of  P407.8 million penalty after he pleaded guilty and convicted of lesser offenses instead of plunder and violation of the Money Laundering...

A clerk at the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) pleaded guilty to lesser offenses, instead of graft and estafa through falsification of public documents, and was sentenced to one year imprisonment in 20 cases and three months and 11 days jail term in 20 other cases involving ghost...

ALEXANDRIA, United States -- Alexanda Kotey, a member of the notorious Islamic State kidnapping cell dubbed the ''Beatles,'' pleaded guilty Thursday in a US court to charges of conspiring to murder four American hostages. British Islamic State members El Shafee Elsheikh (L) and Alexanda Kotey (R)...