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By Raïssa Robles Chief Justice Renato Corona’s lawyers would like the public to believe that the under declarations and omissions in his SALNs (Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth) are all “not intentional”. What the lawyers aren’t saying is that CJ Corona was a tax and corporate lawyer who once worked for two banks and for SGV & [...]
My exclusive By Raïssa Robles When Renato Corona was nominated for a vacant seat in the Supreme Court back in 2001, an uncle of his wife Cristina personally wrote the Judicial Bar Council (JBC) to oppose his nomination in order “to save the SC from discredit and disrepute.” Jose Maria Basa III warned that Corona “will not be capable [...]
By Raïssa Robles In one brief hour while having coffee with presidential candidate Benigno Aquino III and his running mate Mar Roxas, American envoy to Manila Kristie Kenney saw PNoy in a dramatically different light. A recently leaked cable from the US embassy in Manila by Wikileaks showed that Kenney wrote afterward about her coffee moment with PNoy at [...]
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