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The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...
Jorge Luis Ochoa Vásquez (born 30 September 1950) is a Colombian former drug trafficker who was one of the founding members of the Medellín Cartel in the late 1970s. The cartel's key members were Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder, José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, Gustavo Gaviria, Jorge Ochoa, and his brothers Juan David and Fabio.
The Grepor Butch Belgica Story (also known as The Butch Belgica Story) is a 1995 Filipino biographical action film co-edited directed by Toto Natividad. The film stars Joko Diaz as Butch Belgica, the country’s most notorious delinquent during the Marcos administration. It was one of the entries in the 1995 Manila Film Festival.
That analysis, however, misses the crucial role of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces in the country’s abrupt impoverishment. In recent years, GAESA — short for Grupo de Administración ...
After a month in office, President Benigno Aquino III issued Executive Order No. 1 (E.O. 1) on July 30, 2010, creating the Philippine Truth Commission (PTC). The PTC was tasked to conduct a thorough fact-finding investigation of reported cases of graft and corruption involving third level public officers during the administration of Aquino's predecessor Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and thereafter ...
v. ) tommy p. beaudreau, et al., ) defendants, and ) cape wind associates, llc, ) intervenor. ) _____) memorandum of the conservation law foundation, the natural resources defense council, and mass audubon in support of defendants’ motions for summary judgment and in opposition to peer et al. plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment on their
In the landmark case Belgica v. Executive Secretary , where the Court declared the Priority Development Assistance Fund unconstitutional, Leonen wrote a separate concurring opinion where he displayed great command of logic and the law in order to arrive with conclusions regarding the unconstitutionality of pork barrel. [ 15 ]
that any emergency threatening it has passed—or, worst case, can be corrected in the upcoming presidential election. But the dangers are not gone; they are regrouping. In some ways they are rapidly gaining force.The big picture reveals that ten classic pressures—pressures that have been used in various times