{"id":2769,"date":"2013-09-01T20:29:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T20:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2013-09-01T20:29:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T20:29:55","slug":"breakdown-of-pork-barrel-funds-by-senator-panfilo-lacson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2769","title":{"rendered":"Breakdown of Pork Barrel funds by Senator Panfilo Lacson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>? 2% goes to the Commission on Audit as S.O.P.<br \/>\n?10% is given to the district engineer and other officials of the Department<\/p>\n<p>of Public Works and Highways.<br \/>\n? 2% is passed on to the Barangay Chairman.<br \/>\n? 14% goes to the contractor \u2014 10% in profit and 4% as value-added tax,<\/p>\n<p>thank God!<br \/>\n? 5-10%, if the Mayor or Governor so demands.<br \/>\n? And, hold your breath \u2014 20% of project cost is earmarked for the<\/p>\n<p>legislator who identifies the project. Shares sometimes vary depending on greed.<\/p>\n<p>In a book published in 1998 by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, entitled, &#8220;Pork and Other Perks,&#8221; the author wrote about vivid accounts of actual pay-offs involving legislators. Thus, a pay-off usually takes place inside the office of legislators. The more sophisticated ones prefer hotel rooms and restaurants. Sulo Hotel in Quezon City is said to be a favourite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>? 2% goes to the Commission on Audit as S.O.P. ?10% is given to the district engineer and other officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways. ? 2% is passed on to the Barangay Chairman. ? 14% goes to the contractor \u2014 10% in profit and 4% as value-added tax, thank God! ? [&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":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769"}],"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=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}