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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 ...
Greco Antonious Beda Banta Belgica (born March 27, 1978) is a Filipino politician who most recently served as chairman of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) under the Duterte administration from March to October 2021.
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 ]
Cuban told Business Insider in an email that AI's impact on any company's workforce numbers will be on a case-by-case basis. "Every company is different," he said. "But the biggest determinant is ...
The number of purchases required would be worked out on a case-by-case basis for each project and comes as the Biden administration is spending more than $30 billion to subsidize U.S. chip production.
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 ...
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In 2006 Ochoa once again left Venezuela, and moved to Paris to join the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation. [3] She worked there for three months with Dr. Evelyne Lutton before joining the University of Nottingham. By 2012, Ochoa had relocated to the University of Stirling, where she was promoted to Full Professor.