04 October 2013
STATEMENT OF ATTY. FERDINAND TOPACIO, SPOKESMAN AND LEGAL COUNSEL OF FORMER FIRST GENTLEMAN JOSE MIGUEL ARROYO, ON REPORTS LINKING HIM TO THE ALLEGED MISUSE OF MALAMPAYA FUND.

"Once again, the Aquino Administration is on a witch hunt, led by its Chief Inquisitor, the Secretary of Justice. And once more, it in once again making use of discredited methods of persecution such as innuendo, half-truths, convoluted logic and guilt by association, to pursue this nefarious end.

"For the record, Atty. Jose Miguel Arroyo wishes to make the following of record, and invites anyone to check these facts for themselves using any means at their disposal:

"1. Ruby Tuason is the estranged wife of his late first cousin, Carlos "Butch" Tuason, and therefore their relationship is one merely of affinity or law, and not of blood;

"2. At the time the alleged transactions regarding the Malampaya funds are concerned, Ruby Tuason had been separated from Butch Tuason, who at that time was already deceased, after having been in a long-term relationship with another woman. At this point, whatever connections Atty. Arroyo may have had with Ms. Tuason may be deemed to have been severed; and

"3. Atty. Arroyo has had no dealings whatsoever with Ruby Tuason. They hardly even meet. The last time Atty. Arroyo saw Ms. Ruby Tuason was at the wake of his cousin Butch Tuason sometime in June of 2008. Thereafter, the two never had occasion to meet.

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Worse than the pork barrel scam

Emil Jurado said" santa banana, the President is playing around with our money.

Justice Ombudsman, totoo po ba na may release ba pondo na halagang P400M para sa Batanes Dam "leading to nowhere".

Wow, ang dami na ng kaso na naka file sa Ombudsman sa ngalan ng "Tuwid na Daan"!

Sana po malaman din po namin kung may nakasuhan at ano ang nangyari sa mga sumusunod:

1. Yong mga baril at posas na binili ng PNP ng panahon ni Chief PNP Lacson.
2. Yong napaulat na Boss ng Jueteng na si Usec Puno
3. Yong Ibat ibang kinasangkutan na anomalya sa DILG ni Puno pa rin.
4. Yong pagsusugal ni LTO Torres.
5. Yong mga pondo ng Philippine Forest Corporation sa ilalim ni Pres. Lozada.
6. Yong napakalaking ponds ni Drilon sa Iloilo airports na hindi kapanipaniwala.
7. Audit report ng COA sa pondo ng DSWD sa pamumuno ni Soliman.
8. Yong mga PDAF nila Pnoy, Abad, Tupaz at mga prosecutors ni Corona.
9. SALN ni Chief Justice Sereno.
10. Ulat sa U tube sa SALN at ibat ibang malalaking Corporation na pagaari ni Sec. Purisima.
11. SALN ni Sen. Legarda at mga maraming lupain at properties sa Amerika at iba pang bansa.
12. SALN ni Comm Henares g BIR at kanyang properties.
(Marami pang iba. May karugtong).

ACT OF DIVERSION AND DESPERATION: Pnoy's Nth attempt to blame PGMA over misuse of malampaya funds is his USUAL ANTIDOTE whenever besieged by anomalies and corruption issues. for three years now, this is the template he follows whenever governance problems and issues occur - instruct DOJ and ombudsman to file highest possible cases bereft of evidence and only backed up by hearsays; mount smear campaign with the help of yellow media to vilify opponents and critics. and even allies,; unravel the charges INITIALLY BEFORE MEDIA even before those accused are served their copies of the accusations. let the accused ROT in detention by presenting tons of witnesses; what comes next are WAVES of allies survey groups proclaiming his popularity; diversion by the aquino sisters gossiping about his love-life; his palace spokespersons scrambling for microphones (including himself) to explain their stupidities - but one thing is CLEAR now: THE reason for the STAGNANT economy resulting from NOTHING BUILT after 3 years is that GOVT MONEY WAS USED TO LINE UP THE POCKETS OF HIS POLITICAL ALLIES.

Dzmm crawler:
Gma: pagpapalabas ng malampaya funds legal.

ABS-CBN: Miriam: I was right about Corona trial

- Sen Miriam Defensor Santiago feels she has been proven right in her decision to acquit former Chief Justice Renato Corona in light of the bribery and corruption issues currently hounding the administration and several senators. Aside from that, she said it was also wrong for the senators to convict Corona when they themselves were secretly receiving funds from Malacañang in the form of the so-called DAP.

MANILA TIMES: Dante Jimenez, VACC founding chairman, said on Thursday Aquino may enjoy the support of the majority of members of the Senate and House Representatives but it will not stop the filling of an impeachment complaint against him. Jimenez said volunteer lawyers of the organization are preparing the compliant, and some lawmakers pledged to back it in the House. He said Aquino violated the Constitution and committed grave abuse of discretion when he allowed the release of public funds through the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) which was not sanctioned by Congress.