In today’s resumption of the fertilizer fund scam probe, the key incident centered on a picture that showed different Fertilizer fund scam personalities.
Turning Law’s Majesty Into a Travesty
December 10, 2008 By 38 Comments
In largely procedural fashion, the Supreme Court has issued a writ of habeas corpus requiring the Senate to explain the basis for the arrest and continued detention of Jocelyn ’Joc Joc ‘ Bolante. Surely this is the majesty of the law at work despite the widespread public estimation that Bolante is guilty as hell in [...]
Joc Joc’s Greatest Performance Or Monumental Slip-up?
November 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Malacanang is applauding his nearly 9-hour long performane before the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. Why not when right in his opening statement the former powerful and. apparently still moneyed. for undersecretary and ‘respected’ Rotarian cleared President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of involvement in the P728-M anomaly which the senators creatively tagged as “Grand Theft Agri”? But [...]
The Political Machinery and Infrastructure Of President Arroyo
November 13, 2008 By 14 Comments
Joc Joc Is Ready To Talk, But…
November 10, 2008 By 3 Comments
He may have only been undersecretary, but wield power he did when Jocelyn Bolante was subordinate to Luis ‘Cito’ Lorenzo at the Department of Agriculture. And even now that he is ‘confined’ for various health prioblems at St. Luke’s Medical Center, Joc Joc is not in a joking mood. In fact, through text messages to [...]
Pimentel cautions colleagues against obstructing probe of Bolante
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Joc Joc’s Hospital Conference Suite
October 30, 2008 By Leave a Comment
He is ‘officially’ still awaiting his doctors’ clearance to go back home to his Ayala Alabang digs. But thanks to the Inquirer we have a glimpse of the interiors of St. Luke’s Medical Center’s PhP11,250/day Suite 2016 where private citizen Bolante is billeted…errr..confined. The room comes complete with a large white board and a medium [...]
What Now Citizen Joc Joc?
October 29, 2008 By 14 Comments
No joke, after a slew of confusing reports about his homecoming ‘architect’ Jocelyn ‘Joc Joc’ Bolante of fertilizer fund scam fame is back “to answer in the proper forum, any and all questions and baseless allegations” about the anomaly that defrauded Filipino farmer of at least PhP 728-M in aid that should have gone to [...]
Joc Joc Bolante Back, Sources Report
October 23, 2008 By 6 Comments
Normally reliable sources have told this writer that former agriculture secretary Jocelyn ‘Joc Joc’ Bolante has either returned to the country or may already be on a flight en route to Manila. The earlier than expected return of Bolante (reports over the weekend had said the central figure in the PhP728-M fertilizer fund scam was [...]
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