The House of Representatives on Monday impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona — a close associate of embattled former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo — for alleged graft and corruption, culpable violation of the Constitution, and betr...
By VERA Files Former First Son and incumbent party-list congressman Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo and his wife Angela Montenegro will be charged with tax evasion, after the Department of Justice found probable cause to sue them. The DOJ’s Task For...
While those surveyed apparently know that death penalty is not the maximum penalty for heinous crimes committed in our country, the suggestion to impose it on corrupt government officials only shows how much the people abhor the crime. On the other s...
One brave soul has mustered the courage to bring the powerful Luna family to court. Bernadine S. Joson, concurrent secretary to the Sangguniang Bayan of Lagayan, Abra and until recently municipal planning and development coordinator, filed before the...
By Luz Rimban,VERA Files Two prominent members of a powerful political family in Abra are facing plunder charges for allegedly embezzling more than P130 million in municipal funds, in what a whistleblower has called “big-time corruption in a small...
A number of recent movements at the Commission on Elections don’t make sense. The person who has always been known to be uncompromising in matters of electoral crimes and graft and corruption has been dismissed from his department level position wh...
Bt Ashzel Hachero Malaya Former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo is undergoing therapy due to loss of voice following cervical spine surgery last week at the St. Luke’s Medical Center in Taguig City. Mayor Jerry Pelayo of Candaba, Pamp...