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pagkaluoy.  nahadlok baya kong moabli ani nga thread kay unsa unya ba.  salamat nga happy ending.  whew!

hehe, at least naman your reputation is that of a tech savvy.  mine is just in keeping with my reputation.  wa gyod ko kaila ug unsay models ug phones.  tulo ra pod ang akong tuyo ani--text, call, calculator.  hasolan na ko kun himoon pang camera. (congrats to me.  akong miga di gani mosugot nga naa siyay cellphone.) 

here's the clincher.  nakapalit kog bag-o kunohay.  wa abti ug 24 hours, gikawat dayon.  gibutang lang nako kadiyot ug table somewhere, paglingi nako, invisible na. 

balik na lang ko sa daan nga phone.  someone told me it now costs 400 pesos.

hehe, hasta buhok nagpa-blonde.  maayo gani wa mag-short shorts.  pssst, asa kaha dapit iyang tattoo sa?

we may as well end up holding pork chicharons and chorizos.

egad.  it looks like we did not only end up with ghost projects.  we also end up with ghost defendants.

aguy.  could this be the beginning of the end?  but not so fast.  the father was a political phoenix.  just look at us voting into public office again a discredited president who was accused of plunder, tsk, tsk. 

Quote from: islander on September 14, 2013, 01:04:13 PM
Now go to P83 billion. That was the amount of the pork barrel in 2009, which marks the 20th year of the pork barrel, and the almost-end of the Arroyo administration. The pork was composed of the PDAF appropriations of P10 billion; VILP, P23 billion; and CI, P50 billion.

Quote from: islander on September 14, 2013, 01:08:21 PM
The good news is that from a high of P83 billion in 2009, the pork barrel plummeted to about P25 billion in 2012 (alas, the hanky-panky continues). And it will be zero for 2014.  But as we have seen, the PDAF is not the pork barrel. Until P-Noy says that he is abolishing the pork barrel, I will not be satisfied, and neither should anybody else. We’ve been hoodwinked enough. Abolish the pork barrel. Not just the PDAF. Now.

pork barrel = PDAF of P10 billion
                    VILP of P23 billion
                    CI of P50 billion

yes, our legislators have been proposing for the abolition of the PDAF, but that's only part of the pork barrel, as we can see.  there's still the bigger VILP and the CI.  and the PDAF is the smallest amount.  hehe, mga wais gyod.

Abolish the pork barrel. Not just the PDAF. Now.

...especially the whispering hope.

no wonder, if we focus on one bohol congressman, just one, regardless of the rest, where did he get all those properties and funds to finance the political ambitions of the rest of his family members?  it used to be that when he first began his political career he passed himself off as truly poor.

klaro jamo.  gibinagsa nako, paragraph by paragraph, for easier mental digestion.  (at least, that's how easier it is for me to digest.)

cry, my beloved country.

The good news is that from a high of P83 billion in 2009, the pork barrel plummeted to about P25 billion in 2012 (alas, the hanky-panky continues). And it will be zero for 2014.  But as we have seen, the PDAF is not the pork barrel. Until P-Noy says that he is abolishing the pork barrel, I will not be satisfied, and neither should anybody else. We’ve been hoodwinked enough. Abolish the pork barrel. Not just the PDAF. Now.

http://opinion.inquirer.net/

It is to the credit of the present administration that it put a stop to the CI. It also folded the VILP into the PDAF for greater control (besides which Public Works’ Babes Singson didn’t want the VILP in his budgetâ€"so he must have known the kind of hanky-panky that could take place). Unfortunately, this action was deliberately or unintentionally misunderstood, and P-Noy was accused of more than doubling the PDAF compared to Arroyo. See how statistics can be misinterpreted?

Actually, the CI for 2010 amounted to an even larger P64 billion, but Gloria Arroyo gave a “conditional veto”â€"she vetoed it unless funds other than the supposed savings from foreign exchange rates could be found. In spite of that, by the time the Aquino administration came in, at least one-third of the CI had been spent.

In other words, while the general level of prices went up fourfold, the pork barrel ballooned to 115 times its original level. How’s that for greed? Note, Reader, that the legislators were getting a much larger share of a humongously larger pork barrel.

Now compare the 1989 and 2009 numbers: 1989, P720 million; 2009, P83 billion. The pork barrel had increased by a factor of One Hundred Fifteen (115, i.e., 83 billion is 115 times 720 million). Now bring in another statistic: the increase in the general level of prices between 1989 and 2009. Prices in 2009 were, on the average, four times those of prices in 1989.

Now go to P83 billion. That was the amount of the pork barrel in 2009, which marks the 20th year of the pork barrel, and the almost-end of the Arroyo administration. The pork was composed of the PDAF appropriations of P10 billion; VILP, P23 billion; and CI, P50 billion.

Still not content with that, some legislators in the Arroyo administration realized that by reducing the assumed exchange rate for converting foreign debt service into pesos, a lot of additional funds could be made available for congressional reallocation. Thus was born the Congressional Insertions (CI), which was more than double the VILP, and five times the PDAF.

But it would seem that, not content with PDAF, the legislators also introduced other forms of pork: The Various Infrastructure including Local Projects (VILP, also known as “hard” pork, to distinguish it from the PDAF’s “soft” pork) came into being. The VILP, by the way, was more than double the PDAF, which means the pork barrel tripled in amount.

But, it was replaced. By the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF). The same dogâ€"oops, pigâ€"with a different collar, supposedly tighter, in the form of much-ballyhooed safeguards with regard to type of projects, bidding, monitoring, vetting of NGOs, procedures, financial and liquidation requirements, etc., etc. The same safeguards enumerated in the recent Commission on Audit report.

There’s more to come. There of course was public outrage and public outcry then (as there is now). And the government “listened” then, as it seems to be listening now. Apparently, reforms were promised, but when that was not enough, the CDF was abolished in 2000. Does that sound familiar?

At this point, it is appropriate to compare the pork-sharing system then and in the recent past, assuming that so-called whistle-blower Benhur Luy’s testimony is as unimpeachable as Candazo’s was 17 years ago: The numbers show that a) the legislators’ share (although Luy was referring only to senators, because it was the Senate blue ribbon committee holding the hearing) of the pork has gone up from 40 percent at most to a definite 50 percent, not including the share of their chiefs of staff at 5 percent;  b) the rest of the gang (implementing agencies, executive agencies) get 10 percent; and c) the “NGOs” and/or their mastermind get 35 percent. Which means that all the foregoing got the priority with respect to assistance, while the objects of development got absolutely zero.

Fast forward to 1996, when this newspaper came out with an exposé detailing how members of both the legislative and executive branches were dividing the pork among themselves, with the people, for whom the “D” in “CDF” was intended, allegedly getting, in the form of actual cost of the project, as little as 7 percent and at most 40 percent of the funds intended for them.  The restâ€"from 60 to 93 percentâ€"was apparently being divided among the legislators (12-40 percent), the implementing agencies, the pre-bids and awards committees (plus the resident auditor), and the local government units. Everybody had their hand in that pork barrel. As it turns out, the “Deep Throat,” the supplier of the information, was the sitting congressman from  Marikina, Romeo Candazo, who apparently could not stomach the situation.

Continue with P2.3 billion. This is the increase in the pork barrel in 1990, one year later. It is now called the Countrywide Development Fund (CDF), because the Luzon politicians also wanted to partake of the pork. Note, Reader, that hardly had President Cory offered a hand of help to the legislators than they reached for her whole arm (and seemed to have gotten it). Between one year and the next, the pork barrel more than tripled.

Start with P720 million. That is the total amount of the first pork barrel in the form of the Mindanao Development Fund (P480 million) and the Visayas Development Fund (P240 million). Established in 1989 by President Cory Aquino, who finally gave in to the importuning (I have personal knowledge of this) of politicians.

Get Real

A story of greed and abuse of power

By Solita Collas-Monsod
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Friday, September 13th, 2013

Numbers can tell the most fascinating stories, and this one has to do with greed and abuse of power: the servants of the people conspiring with each other to steal from their masters in even greater, mind-boggling magnitudes.

mahal kaayo na ug abang uy.  give up ko.

apologies noted.  hope you start getting in the way of two 8-year-olds here who have been catfighting in the last few months. 

calling, taga tigbao!  sos.  magbaha unya mi diri.

hahaha!  lamia ani uy.  sayang tuod ang tape.

poor chicken.

ooops, didn't notice the time.  gotta go, sweet kangaroo.   

you're always included in my prayer intentions, lorenz.  sometimes, the intention consists only of 4 words---have mercy on him.

everything that you've shared in the preceding post is everything normal for a young man, most especially a young man on a roller-coaster ride towards a very demanding profession.  glad that you continue to be gentle with yourself. 

you will find her.  she will come like a thief in the night... and she will find you. 

malinaw baya pod tingali ang tb nation kun isakay si diablo ug backhoe...

Quote from: chicogon on September 14, 2013, 02:34:46 AM
Photos of the EXP to follow

can hardly wait...

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 14, 2013, 02:25:26 AM
Got back from a 16 hour shift last night. I got home at 5 am. I was so so so tired, that i had to stop by a local car wash's parking lot and slept in my car for 2 hours to nap. Di nako kaya to drive back from hospital, so i had to stop by. Went home, and now , getting ready for another shift.

You know what? What's also weird is that i'm thinking about her again. Why does she always come back to my mind?

she will fade away slowly, in your heart and in your mind, as you may know.  (and congratulations!  you did not selfishly jump from one relationship to another just to save yourself the heartaches.  that's courage.)

anus-a man tawon mag-ukang ning duha ka otso anyos uy.  anha ba kaha kun mag-debut na sila?

kalami na lang unta kun makabasa tag lalis dinhi pero it's about ideas or opinion or ideology.  no threats, no name calling, no challenging on who blinks first... haraw madutlan na unta mo ug mga pangadye ni lorenz.

it's pretty obvious that your crossing of swords is no longer about principles but about personal caprices.  it has gotten down to a low level.  i-private message na lang kaha ninyo kanang inyong mutual potshots?  surely you are not crying for an audience, right?  mapagan ug madamay man god ning uban nga mahidam-ag ninyo.       

o, sige, sige.  cool usa mong duha.  madayon lagi ang movie nga kulbahinam.  kamong duha ang mga bida.  and here's your leading lady...

Quote from: islander on September 13, 2013, 04:38:03 PM

The world's shortest woman visited New York on Thursday, making a stop at the Empire State Building observatory deck. Jyoti Amge, who stands just two feet and one half an inch tall, says she'd like to become a Hollywood movie star. (Sept. 12) http://www.usatoday.com/

Quote from: robert on September 14, 2013, 12:46:11 AM
ayaw pod pag hikog. nganong mag pa kamatay man ka. take your punishment like a man. taste the fist of an old man

take your pick...

Quote from: balong on September 13, 2013, 08:52:56 PM
EXTRACTION will take place after the balong and bocats chess tournament. dad-on ka sa LA ISLA BONITA pagka human sa tournament.

putting up a mining firm, sir balong?  or drilling for oil? 

Quote from: hubag bohol on September 14, 2013, 01:31:47 AM
Wan milyon = wan sak sapal...

sa tingin ko, naligaw ka yata, ginoong hubag.

Quote from: chicogon on September 12, 2013, 12:51:38 AM

another edition?  who thought of the album's title?  is this mascariñas guy the singer-songwriter?  a priest?  sorry for the many questions.  my attention was caught  because this big bang here is no longer a mere theory.

Quote from: balong on September 13, 2013, 09:31:42 PM
just want hubag bohol out of tbnation. he can use any other alias.

ayaw na lang pagdahom ana kay di man ka makabuot dinhi.

Quotehadlok ko ug barang islander. too ko ana. too pod ko ug anting anting. dihay gi posil naho nga moklo, klaro jung igo-a sa ahong garand. 194gotten pa man ni nahitabo. naa pay daghang garand. tumba jud. mi bangon ug usab. mi dagan. gi tirahan naho ug usab. mao gihapon. balintong kay perteng igo-a. sharpiyoter pa man ko sauna.the same story. pagka taud taud mi bakod. naka dagan gihapon.

mahadlok ang moklo ug garand. bitbit ka ug armalite, siggitan lang ka, plastic man na.

tirahan pa to nimog epoxy pilit unta, di na katindog.  hahay, think strategy.  sige lang kag hisgot ug mga pusil nga di lang plastic, naa pa gyoy hinimo ug kahoy ug bayabas.

Quote from: balong on September 13, 2013, 09:25:25 PM
wa kay apil oy. you are safe. hubag bohol ray ahong kontra. not taga tigbao. not islander

you are not safe.

Quote from: balong on September 13, 2013, 08:12:53 PM
hihihi. i tell very tall tales. mao nga lisod katoohan. but everything i tell you about myself is the estortruth. my friend bocats exist. he is not a fictional character. pareha ni sija nimo. no mercy. wa nay daghang estorya, patjon ka dajon.

abaw gid.  kadaghan ba diay nimog ipapatay.  ako na man ron.  tan-awa ra god ug balik kinsay imong gi-quote.

hoy, balong, isang barang ka lang!  kaliwat kog mamamarang.  kanang imong left foot mahitarok gyod na sa imong right ear.  ug ang imong singot mamorag bungog.  palag?

huh?  even a topic such as this has a way of going around and ending up about you?

why man you know?  nagkita na diay moh?

maoy gidangat.  they will live to fight another day...

sakit sa dughan tuod.  pila na kaha ka spanking new combat boots ang mapalit sa presyo lang sa usa ka bag ni jeane napoles. 

paskang bagaang mga anaka.  wa na lang gyod sila mahibung nganong niahat silag kadato?

ZAMBOANGA CITY - Members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) holed up in at least five villages in the city torched three blocks of residential houses. The fire has been raging for several hours as of this posting.

Fire trucks and firemen deployed to contain the huge fire were met with pockets of hostile fire coming from the rebels.

Fire marshal Senior Superintendent Dominador Zabala Jr. said they could not immediately determine how many houses were razed by the fire because they cannot enter the area.

“It's too dangerous because our personnel and trucks were being fired at,” Zabala said.

Informed of the situation, the military sent personnel backed up by armored personnel carrier tanks and pounded on the rebels' positions.

The move, however, still failed to give firemen a way in to the burning area.
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Several other areas in the city have also been torched by the rebels as the government attempt to recover the areas that they were occupying.

At least 12 people have been confirmed killed and more than 20,000 residents displaced by the MNLF's hostilities.

http://www.philstar.com/

kalooy sa mga inosenteng naangin.  unsa man tawon ilang pagtoo uy?  mo-surrender ang gobyerno?

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines - Eleven were hurt after the Nur Misuari-led faction of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) fired a rifle grenade in Barangay Sta. Catalina, Zamboanga City.

Among those injured were five Philippine Red Cross volunteers, two personnel of the Philippine National Police, two soldiers, a human rights personnel and an intelligence personnel.

The group were seeking cover from the concrete fence of the Zamboanga City Medical Center along the corner of the Dr. Evangelista Street and Lustre junction when the M203 rifle grenade exploded past 5 p.m.

Two of the wounded Red Cross personnel and airforce personnel were seriously wounded while the rest were slightly injured from the blast.

The explosion forced news correspondents and televisions crews within the blast site scampering for safety and leaving the area as the ground was getting more hostile.

The rifle grenade attack came as military tanks were trying to barge and clear the area of rebels to allow the fire trucks to contain the three sites torched by the rebels.

http://www.philstar.com/

5 Red Cross personnel, 6 others hurt in Zambo grenade attack

By Roel Pareño (philstar.com) | Updated September 13, 2013 - 6:27pm


Two soldiers lay wounded after a mortar landed near them as the government troopers continue their assault at Muslim rebels who have taken scores of hostages and used them as human shields for the fifth straight day Friday Sept. 13, 2013 at Zamboanga city in southern Philippines. The troops have surrounded the Moro National Liberation Front guerrillas with their hostages in four coastal villages since the crisis erupted Monday. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

MNLF rebels torch more houses in Zamboanga


By Roel Pareño (philstar.com) | Updated September 13, 2013 - 6:51pm


Gutted houses are seen Friday Sept.13, 2013, a day after fierce fighting between the government troopers and Muslim rebels, who have taken scores of hostages and used them as human shields, in Zamboanga city. The troops have surrounded the Moro National Liberation Front guerrillas with their hostages in four coastal villages since the crisis erupted Monday. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Firemen rush to put out a fire that razed dozens of structures during a government assault on members of the Muslim rebel Moro National Liberation Front in Zamboanga city, southern Philippines, on September 12, 2013. Philippine troops battled Muslim rebels on two fronts on Thursday, after about 150 extremists attacked a second city near the southern port where militants have been holding scores of residents hostage in a four-day standoff with government forces. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

http://www.theatlantic.com/

Members of the Philippine national police special forces take cover as they move on enemy positions among burning houses during a firefight in Zamboanga City, on September 12, 2013. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)

A Philippine soldier fires his M-16 rifle at rebel snipers as another soldier covers his ears during a firefight between government forces and Muslim rebels in Zamboanga City, on September 12, 2013. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)

A resident holds his head as a fire razes several homes during a firefight in Zamboanga City, on September 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

A partially burned cat runs away from burning houses during a firefight between government forces and Muslim rebels in Zamboanga City, on September 12, 2013. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)

Residents rush to save their belongings as fire continues to raze several homes while government troops continued an assault on Muslim rebels in Zamboanga City, on September 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Residents attempt to extinguish the flames from burning houses, caused by a firefight between government soldiers and Muslim rebels in a residential district in Zamboanga City, on September 12, 2013. (Reuters/Erik De Castro)

A Philippine soldier guides a fire truck to burning houses during a firefight between government forces and Muslim rebels in Zamboanga City, on September 12, 2013. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)

Government troops fire their weapons at Muslim rebels positions in Zamboanga City, on September 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Government troops continue their assault on Muslim rebels, on September 12, 2013, in Zamboanga City. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Government soldiers pray prior to taking their position as the stand-off enter its fourth day in Zamboanga City, on September 12, 2013. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)

A policeman uses a mirror to scan the positions of Moro National Liberation Front snipers in Zamboanga, where security forces are battling hundreds of rebels who are holding dozens of civilian hostages, on September 10, 2013. (Reuters/Stringer)

A sniper of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force aims his rifle at the Muslim mosque with its minaret full of pockmarks during a standoff with Muslim rebels, on September 10, 2013, in Zamboanga. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

A Philippine soldier mans a machine gun inside an armored personnel carrier during a firefight between government forces and Muslim rebels in Zamboanga City, on September 12, 2013. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)

Government forces man the port at sunset as about 200 Muslim rebels, enraged by a broken peace deal with the Philippine government, hold scores of hostages as human shields in a continuing standoff with government forces at the southern port city of Zamboanga, on September 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Residents living near the area of a stand-off between the Philippine military and Muslim gunmen in Zamboanga, in dozens of boats after evacuating the city's boulevards, along the coast on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, on September 11, 2013. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)

Villagers use boats to flee the current standoff between Government troops and Muslim rebels at the southern port city of Zamboanga, on September 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Paramedics carry a wounded MNLF rebel on a stretcher, after he was captured at a checkpoint in downtown Zamboanga, on September 11, 2013. (Reuters/Erik De Castro)

A weapon concealed in a bag of rice carried by an MNLF rebel lies on a road after the rebel was captured at a military checkpoint in downtown Zamboanga, on September 11, 2013. (Reuters/Erik De Castro)

Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) rebels, one of them injured, lie on the ground after they were captured at a military checkpoint in downtown Zamboanga, on September 11, 2013. (Reuters/Erik De Castro)

Government soldiers take cover during a firefight with Muslim rebels from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in Zamboanga City, on September 12, 2013. Fighting between security forces and rogue Muslim rebels seeking to declare an independent state escalated and spread to a second island, officials said. U.S.-trained commandos exchanged gunfire with a breakaway faction of the MNLF holding dozens of hostages in Zamboanga City, on the southernmost island of Mindanao. (Reuters/Erik De Castro)

Residents, believed to be hostages, wave white sheets as they shout at troops to halt their operation in the continuing standoff with Muslim rebels in Zamboanga City, on September 11, 2013. About 200 Muslim rebels, enraged by a broken peace deal with the Philippine government, are holding scores of hostages as human shields in a continuing standoff with government forces for the third day with no solution in sight. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Fresh troops arrive as reinforcements, continuing an assault on Muslim rebels in Zamboanga City, on September 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Philippine government troops continue their assault on members of the Muslim rebel Moro National Liberation Front in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines, on September 12, 2013. Philippine troops battled Muslim rebels on two fronts Thursday, after extremists attacked a second city near the southern port where militants have been holding scores of residents hostage in a four-day standoff with government forces. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

A sniper of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force takes his position from a building.

http://www.philstar.com/

oink, oink.

please don't force him, or her...


The world's shortest woman visited New York on Thursday, making a stop at the Empire State Building observatory deck. Jyoti Amge, who stands just two feet and one half an inch tall, says she'd like to become a Hollywood movie star. (Sept. 12) http://www.usatoday.com/

i cannot speak for sir balong, though.

ekskyus mi.  di co bicolano.  bol-anon koh.  where tarsiers are, almoranas is unknown.

nakaako pa ug panghiwi, ayayayayay, hahahaha!  abi kay angajan jamo.

let's just simplify life and take it from lady gaga then.  she didn't cross tribes, she crossed species.


fashion swagger? lady gaga's pork dress gave the philippines' pork barrel scam some fashion sense

Quote from: Lollapalooza on September 12, 2013, 06:15:51 PM


this is my uncle.. taken after nakipagbakbakan sa abu sayyaf somewhere in jolo, sulu.... currently assigned in Zamboanga City.. naa ni siya na assign sa bomb squad ron.... please be safe uncle...

p.s. mangayo unya ko ug help nimo puhon kung free naka... naa ko i-refer... ^__^

aguy, one more proof nga kaliwat ka ug combatants.  it would be well for someone not to cross paths with you.  klaro nga tinuod ning imo, di lang hadla-hadla.

anyways, here are hopes that your uncle is safe as he ought to be, loll.

Quote from: Lollapalooza on July 18, 2013, 02:33:52 PM


year 1997 or 1998 ata ni...my best of friends til now... 21 years of friendship and still counting.. kanang bata diha naminyo na ug naa na pod anak... hehehehehe

this is what i missed, loll.  someone like me with no permanent address cannot partake of this kind of joy.  you're lucky!

kontento na lang ko ani niya...

naa diay pod moy tinagoan nga pictures with janet lim napoles?  ipagawas na lang daan... unahi ang media.

ugh.  those two look like they're suffering from hemorrhoids.  mga almoranas hunks.

hahaha!  one of the best reads i've had in months.  so, so, so witty.

with or without a mustache, if the author is male (or female, and so what if she has a mustache; there's always a circus in town), i'd go to great lengths to pin a mustache on his/her face to show my appreciation for his/her great writing.

hey, lorenz, time to grow one!

MOTHER OF ALL PHOTO OOOPS! Malacañang releases on Thursday a photo of President Aquino with Janet Lim-Napoles that was taken at a dinner party at Shangri-La Hotel after the Mass celebrating Pedro Calungsod’s canonization on Nov. 30, 2012, in Cebu City. PHOTO RELEASED BY MALACAÃ'ANG

for the full news item, read more at: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/486593/palace-on-aquino-janet-photos-no-big-deal#ixzz2enmrELlV

with senator and mrs franklin drilon

with senator jinggoy estrada

Rappler EXCLUSIVE: Sandigan Associate Justice Gregory Ong, under whose division the Kevlar helmet case was decided, appears in a photo partying with Janet Napoles and Sen Jinggoy Estrada.
Read more here: http://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/37673-napoles-anti-graft-court-justice â€" with Nashri Espinosa.

mr and mrs jaime napoles and senator ramon revilla and congresswoman lani mercado revilla

of course, they do not know janet lim napoles.


with senators ramon revilla jr. and jinggoy estrada

Is there a prescriptive period in prosecuting someone with plunder?

Yes. The crime punishable under R.A. 7080 prescribes in twenty (20) years. However, the right of the State to recover properties unlawfully acquired by public officers from them or from their nominees or transferees shall not be barred by prescription, laches, or estoppel.

http://jlp-law.com/blog/the-law-on-plunder/

Upon conviction, what is the other penalty in addition to imprisonment?

In case of conviction by final judgment, the accused shall lose all retirement or gratuity benefits under any law. However, if the accused is acquitted, he shall be entitled to reinstatement and to the salaries and other benefits which he failed to receive during suspension, unless in the meantime, administrative proceedings have been filed against him.