{"id":2727,"date":"2013-08-07T18:47:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T18:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2013-08-07T18:47:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T18:47:32","slug":"pork-barrel-scam-involves-5-senators-and-23-congressmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2727","title":{"rendered":"Pork barrel scam involves 5 senators and 23 congressmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"1\" height=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>According to a report made by Nancy Carvajal\u00a0 in Philippine Daily Inquirer, at least &#8220;5 senators and 23 members of the House of Representatives made available their pork barrel funds to dummy nongovernment organizations [NGOs] for purported ghost projects worth P10 billion over the past decade.&#8221; Affidavits were subsequently sent to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Topping the list is <strong>Senator Ramon &#8220;Bong&#8221; Revilla Jr<\/strong>. who allegedly allowed use of his Priority Development Assistance Funds (PDAF) otherwise known as pork barrel by Janet Lim-Napoles, president and CEO of the trading firm JLN Corp. The dummy NGOs which were duly registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission were organized by Napoles.<\/p>\n<p>Revilla&#8217;s alleged P1 billion scam is followed by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile&#8217;s P640 million, Jinggoy Estrada&#8217;s P585M, Bongbong Marcos&#8217; P100M, and Honasan&#8217;s P15M.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to another newspaper report, Sen. Loren Legarda was not involved in the scam, said the principal whistle-blower, Benhur Luy, a former Napoles employee. \u201cThere was an attempt, but I heard she was dropped because she scrutinized it and she was very keen on receipts,\u201d Luy told the Daily Inquirer.<\/p>\n<p>Topping the list of 23 House representatives is Rizalina Seachon-Lanete of Masbate\u2019s third district, who allowed her pork barrel to be used 13 times; followed by Conrado Estrella III of Pangasinan\u2019s 6th district and Rodolfo Plaza of Agusan del Sur, both on nine occasions; and Samuel Dangwa, of Benguet, eight.<\/p>\n<p>Pork barrel is a derogatory term referring to appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to bring money to a representative&#8217;s district. The bulk of the funds usually end up in the politician&#8217;s pocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report made by Nancy Carvajal\u00a0 in Philippine Daily Inquirer, at least &#8220;5 senators and 23 members of the House of Representatives made available their pork barrel funds to dummy nongovernment organizations [NGOs] for purported ghost projects worth P10 billion over the past decade.&#8221; Affidavits were subsequently sent to the National Bureau of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}