Massive scale corruption exposed/unfolding

**greenlyt** · August 30th, 2013 11:48 AM

daming speculators/conspiracy theorists
si manay Lozada gustong sumikat ulit

**chua_riwap** · August 30th, 2013 11:53 AM

^tinabla kasi siya ni pnoy.........

**Altis6453** · August 30th, 2013 12:27 PM

Lozada is acting all bitter, but didn't he, in fact, go to Malacanang to ask that his pending cases be dismissed "kasi wala naman siyang atraso sa administrasyon"? So, siya rin meron access kay PNoy? Sus!

**Lew_Alcindor** · August 30th, 2013 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by ZENMasterTYL

^ selos naman si lozada at intregero...

antayin na lang muna kasi

But dont you find it strange that the president will escort napoles?

Yes napoles needs to be protected. but escorted by the president?

FYI, napoles was a fugitive and not a victim.

i dont know, maybe it is gma's fault.

**Lew_Alcindor** · August 30th, 2013 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by oliver1013

Dapat lang escortan yan, kung pwede nga secret service pa umescort diyan...kailangan pa natin mapakinggan ang kanta niya.

Walang kuwenta mga singer ng Voice Philippines kumpara sa pagkanta ni Ginang Napoles kung nagkataon..

wag ka mag-alala. inescortan na. no less than pnoy is the escort of napoles.

**Monseratto** · August 30th, 2013 12:55 PM

^^ di lang iyakin but also ingitero... Why is the media wasting their time talking to this loser???

**Monseratto** · August 30th, 2013 01:32 PM

Why never have your picture with total stranger...

Associate Justice Gregory Ong, who chairs the Sandigan's Fourth Division and who was short-listed by the Judicial and Bar Council as Presiding Justice candidate, was surprised when Rappler showed him a photo of himself — all-smiles and apparently having a good time — with Sen Jinggoy Estrada and Napoles.

While he acknowledged that he was indeed the one in the photo, he quickly denied knowing Napoles and suggested that it was one of those instances when a stranger, or a common guest in a party, would want their photos taken with him.

“I do not know her. She did not appear in court. I think she had a waiver of appearance in court,” he replied when reminded that Napoles and her brother, Reynald Lim aka Reynaldo Francisco, were both respondents in the Kelvar helmet case.

In that case, Napoles was acquitted while her brother was convicted. This, despite all the payment for the supposed transactions going to Napoles' bank accounts. Her brother applied for and was granted probation by the Sandiganbayan.

Asked where the photo was taken, Ong vaguely remembers the occasion but said it could have been one of the parties frequently hosted by Estrada. “Jinggoy is a friend. I am closer to him than with the father,” Ong said, referring to former President Joseph Estrada. The former president appointed Ong to the Sandiganbayan in 1998.

Angry with Jinggoy?

In an interview Wednesday, August 28, Ong sought to downplay the first impression that he was close or even a friend of Napoles. He explained, “I was beside Jinggoy. Jinggoy was the one in the middle. If she was beside me, that would have been a different story.”

He said he “would not be stupid enough” to be posing with Napoles had he known that she was the respondent in the case previously handled by his division. The ruling, where a number of Marine officials were found guilty, was penned by Justice Jose Hernandez. Ong and Justice Maria Cristina Cornejo concurred.

Told about the propriety of members of the judiciary being seen in social events that could compromise their integrity, Ong said: “I should have learned my lesson.”

Ong said it is likely that Estrada asked him to join the photo opportunity with Napoles.

Was Estrada aware that Napoles was a former respondent in Ong’s sala? Did he intentionally put the magistrate in a compromising situation?

Ong said, “Kaya nga ako nagagalit sa kanya. Ginamit nya ako. Nagamit ako." (That’s why I am angry with him. He used me. I got used.)

He added he has severed his ties with Estrada. “I deleted his number," he quickly replied when asked if he would still try to call Estrada. “Very unfair ginawa ni Jinggoy.” (What Jinggoy did was very unfair.)

The younger Estrada in previous interviews, had sought to downplay his association with Napoles, merely saying that he knows Napoles “through a friend.”

Previous photos published by Rappler showed Napoles table-hopping with other guests in a party hosted by Estrada. Napoles, for her part, said she was closer to Estrada’s wife, Precy Vitug.