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BY ANDREO CALONZO GMA News A House prosecutor on Thursday urged Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales to find out whether Chief Justice Renato Corona got his alleged multimillion bank deposits from former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. In a statement, Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Neri Colmenares said the Ombudsman should not stop at determining the amount of Corona’s supposed unexplained wealth, and instead should probe the sources of Read More …
By Edu Punay The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – See you next year. This was Chief Justice Renato Corona’s message to his critics as he expressed confidence yesterday that he would be acquitted in the Senate impeachment trial. Corona takes the witness stand next Tuesday. The chief magistrate believes he will be able to hurdle his ordeal and, in the end, be cleared by the Read More …
By Jess Diaz The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – A prosecution spokesman yesterday said the dizzying movement of funds in Chief Justice Renato Corona’s dollar accounts as alleged by Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales in the impeachment trial is proof of money laundering. Quezon Rep. Erin Tañada also warned that Corona can be charged with plunder even after he is convicted. “Outside of the impeachment case, if Read More …
By Christina Mendez and Marvin Sy The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – Four months after his impeachment, Chief Justice Renato Corona will finally testify in his trial on Tuesday, with his lawyers given the remaining days of this week to help him prepare his testimony. “The sole and only witness remaining is the respondent,” defense lead counsel former Justice Serafin Cuevas said, referring to the Read More …
PerryScope By Perry Diaz When the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona went into a six-week recess in observance of Lent, a lot of people were saying that it seemed that the prosecution would have a hard time piercing the Corona defense with the seemingly weak evidence that they presented. Some of Corona’s rah rah boys jubilantly declared that the prosecution’s case Read More …
BY AMADO P. MACASAET MALAYA ‘Judgment or a verdict is not essentially based on evidence accepted or rejected by the court. It is based on the politics of the senator judges.’ WHEN a justice of the Supreme Court pokes a gun on the temple of the 90-year old uncle of his wife over the issue of money, such a man would never realize that he Read More …
View from Malcolm By Atty. Harry Roque Jr. Manila Standard Today The prosecutors in the on-going impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona owe the defense a mountain of gratitude. After all, it was the defense that proved what the prosecutors could not: That the chief justice has dollar deposits in the amount of— at least—$12 million, which he failed to disclose in his Statement Read More …
By Dennis Carcamo The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – Chief Justice Renato Corona maintained 82 dollar accounts from 2003 to 2011 in five banks containing more than $10 million, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales bared at the impeachment trial on Monday. Morales told Senator-Judge Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. that the 82 bank accounts contained an estimated $12 million as “My computation arrived at with the assistance with Read More …
BY AILEEN ESTOQUIA GMA NewsMay 14, 2012 9:24pm Defense questions stance of Carpio-Morales At the resumption of the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales requested that she be allowed to testify before the other witnesses, citing her heavy workload that needs urgent attention. Defense lawyer Serafin Cuevas emphasized that Carpio-Morales was the lone dissenter in the De Castro case that allowed ex-President Read More …
Source: Philippine Center for Investigative Journaalism OMBUDSMAN CONCHITA CARPIO MORALES stunned members of the impeachment court with an account of the apparently massive movement of US dollars among 82 dollar bank accounts allegedly owned by Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona. Morales, who was presented by the defense panel as a hostile witness, had asked the court for permission to make a powerpoint presentation of Read More …