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Senator: Independent: Inquirer [2] [3] Lito Lapid: Senator: Independent: Daily Tribune [1] Loren Legarda: Senator: NPC: Daily Tribune [1] Panfilo Lacson [2] Bongbong Marcos: Senator/House Representative: Nacionalista: Inquirer [3] Janet Lim Napoles: N/A Independent: Businesswoman, dubbed by the media as the mastermind of the PDAF scam. Koko ...
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 ...
In 2021, the Sandiganbayan convicted Napoles on three counts of graft and three counts of malversation, along with Cagayan de Oro Rep. Constantino Jaraula and three others, in connection with the ₱10 billion pork barrel scam. Napoles was sentenced to 6 to 10 years imprisonment for each count of graft and 12 to 18 years for each count of ...
Estrada was accused of another plunder charge at the Ombudsman relating to Janet Lim-Napoles' pork barrel scam involving ₱10 billion in public funds. Two other senators—Juan Ponce Enrile and Bong Revilla—as well as more than two dozens individuals are charged with him. Estrada is accused of pocketing PHP183 million in kickbacks from fake ...
Revilla was first elected to the Senate in 2004. He successfully ran for a second term and topped the senatorial race in 2010. His alleged involvement in the Napoles pork barrel scam led the Sandiganbayan to issue an arrest warrant against him and other co-accused on June 20, 2014. Within hours, Revilla surrendered before the anti-graft court.
"Escudero calls for Senate probe on P10-B pork barrel scam". Philippines News Agency. July 15, 2013. Robles, Ava May (July 15, 2013). "Bong Revilla, Jinggoy Estrada, three other senators allegedly involved in pork-barrel scam". Philippine Entertainment Portal (in Filipino). GMA New Media. Almario, Anjo (July 17, 2013).
The agency uploaded a daily average of 7,853 consumer complaints over the 10 days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Feb. 3 ordered the bureau's staff to stop much of its work.Five days ...
The so-called "Pork Barrel Scam" was first exposed in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on July 12, 2013, [12] with the six-part exposé of the Inquirer on the scam pointing to businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles as the scam's mastermind after Benhur K. Luy, her second cousin and former personal assistant, was rescued by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation on March 22, 2013, four months ...