The labor center said that while the public became angry at Corona over his role in former Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s attempt to leave the country, the Aquino regime ousted the former CJ primarily because the Supreme Court under his leadership ordered the distribution of Hacienda Luisita, owned by the president’s Aquino-Cojuangco family, to farm workers. “The scale of bribery and corruption related to the Corona impeachment implies that no less than Malacañang is responsible. Aquino and Abad have seriously undermined their ‘daang matuwid’ slogan with this move,” Labog said. Condemning the bribes, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago said that each senator who voted to convict and each congressman who voted to indict the former CJ, if shown to have received additional pork barrel funds immediately after the trial, is “presumably guilty of bribery.”
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 06:07:49 +0000
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