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Exclusive By Raïssa Robles Unlike Senators Loren Legarda and Manny Villar, senatorial candidate JV (Joseph Victor) Ejercito has consistently disclosed his California property, but always at a lower price than what he paid for it. On April 14, 2000, JV Ejercito bought a single-storey, two-bedroom house in Redwood City, San Mateo County, California for US$609,500. He was not a politician then [...]
Exclusive Just my opinion By Raïssa Robles Over the past two years year Jesse Robredo was bypassed THRICE, not twice by the Commission on Appointments (CA) for his confirmation as the Department of Interior and Local governments Secretary. On top of that, his confirmation allegedly scheduled last Wednesday August 15, 2012 – or three days before he died – was [...]
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s case is “THE TEST CASE” for the crime of electoral sabotage. - Congressman Edcel Lagman, a close Arroyo ally My exclusive By Raïssa Robles History repeats itself. In 2001, former President Joseph Estrada was charged and arrested for the crime of economic plunder – a law that he voted “Yes” to while still a senator. [...]