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My exclusive By Raïssa Robles Chief Justice Renato Corona was required by the SALN law to disclose starting 2003 that his wife sat on the board of a state-owned corporation, former Civil Service Commission chair Karina David told me in an interview. David was chair of the Civil Service Commission when Cristina Corona first joined the board of John [...]
Some readers have commented that Cristina Corona was not a government official from 2003 to 2006, so Chief Justice Renato Corona was well within his rights not to disclose her as a government functionary in his own Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) for those years. I just talked to someone who set the record straight. I [...]
By Raïssa Robles Last night, my hubby Alan called my attention to a poster and a video he saw on the Internet. Let me tell you, Alan has this amazing way of looking into the nooks and crannies of the Web and finding fascinating stuff. I have learned a lot from the techniques he has taught me. Anyway, the poster [...]
Read his formula for computing corruption My exclusive By Raïssa Robles Prosecutors in the impeachment trial might not know they have a document they can refer to when they present ITRs and SALNs as evidence. It’s a document written by someone who happens to be named Renato C. Corona. The document is Chief Justice Corona’s landmark decision on July 15, [...]
My Exclusive By Raïssa Robles According to a Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) he filed in 2003, Chief Justice Renato Corona got what he described as a “cash advance” of P11 million pesos from a company he identified as his “wife’s family corporation”. What he didn’t say in his SALN was that the lender company had [...]
By Raïssa Robles Examining for the first time the official disclosures of Chief Justice Renato Corona regarding his worldly wealth, I am reminded of this bible verse from Luke, Chapter 16, verse 10: If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest [...]
Read the SC expenses rejected by the WB My Exclusive by Raissa Robles Last Monday January 16, Chief Justice Renato Corona denounced as “a huge lie” a leaked World Bank report stating that the WB had rejected the charging of plane fares, dinners, hotel expenses incurred under CJ Corona’s watch. These expenses amounting to US$199,900 were charged against a [...]
By Raïssa E. Robles Congressman Tedoro Casiño personally released this morning his own Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) without waiting for anyone to ask him. I’m glad he did. I hope he starts the ball rolling with the rest of the congressmen and senators. And those in the Executive Department. The Judiciary. The police and military [...]
My Exclusive By Raïssa Robles When Chief Justice Renato Corona bought his luxury penthouse overlooking a golf course for P14.5 million, the government taxed the transaction at under a million pesos. Iluminada Lucio, acting Chief of the Asset Valuation Division of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, confirmed to me that the transaction paid the correct taxes, if based on [...]
My exclusive By Raïssa Robles This contradicts the statement earlier made by Chief Justice Renato Corona’s lead lawyer that his client was still paying installment on his luxury condo to this day. A Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) officer told me he personally signed a document in late 2009 which assumed that CJ Corona had fully paid up for [...]
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