ABS-CBN: Tan blames DBM for a poor record-keeping Commission on Audit (COA) chair Maria Gracia Pulido-Tan defended her agency's audit findings on the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel amid reports of errors and inaccuracies. "We always base our finding on documents, and that was the document that was given to us by the DBM and we put full reliance on it," Tan told ABS-CBN News.

ABS-CBN NEWS: LTO chief ousted from Iglesia ni Cristo?
From a report by Anthony Taberna, ABS-CBN News - Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Virginia Torres has reportedly been ousted from religious group Iglesia ni Cristo after videos of her allegedly gambling surfaced recently, an ABS-CBN source said. Torres admitted that she is the woman in the video. She said it was taken on June 2012 at the Madison Arcade in Mandaluyong.

MLA STANDARD: Campaign fund for Mar stirs LP - Members of the ruling Liberal Party on Thursday grumbled about Interior Sec Mar Roxas and Budget Sec Florencio Butch Abad's use of P20 billion of the national budget to start campaigning for 2016 through bottom-up budgeting involving select civil society groups and local government units the underlying message was, it was for Mar's presidential bid in 2016. So the P20-billion budget would be distributed to LGU's with Mar no less on top of the distribution."

MLA STANDARD: SEN MIRIAM DEFENSOR: "Senator Pinky Lacson...is a former fugitive from justice who remains unpunished," Santiago said, using a nickname she coined to question Lacson's manhood. She added that he was "a poster boy" for people like businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles, who went into hiding to evade arrest in the latest pork barrel scandal, because Lacson, too, had fled the country to avoid incarceration on murder charges in 2010.