Chavez calls for disbarment of ‘The Firm’ partners 07/16/2010

Affidavit shows Marcelo making a mockery of the JBC Chavez calls for disbarment of ‘The Firm’ partners 07/16/2010 For making a mockery of Judicial and Bar Council (JBC), former Solicitor-General Frank Chavez wants the partners of The Firm — Pancho Villaraza, Raul Angangco, Avelino “Nonong” Cruz, former defense chief, and Simeon Marcelo, former solicitor-general and former Ombudsman under then President Arroyo — disbarred. In an 87-page Consolidated Reply-Affidavit filed yesterday with the Department of Justice by Chavez in support of his libel complaint against “The Firm,” Chavez demanded that the partners of “The Firm” be disbarred. Chavez based his assertions on the sworn statement dated July 2, 2010 executed by Special Prosecutor Wendell Barreras-Sulit.  In her sworn statement, Sulit stated that, in a telephone conversation with Marcelo, he had told her that “ginagago lang namin ang JBC kasi naman si Corona ang gagawing Chief Justice. I-impeach namin yan.” (We were merely making a mockery of the JBC, since we already know that (Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato) Corona will be appointed Chief Justice and that we will be impeaching him. Chavez said that Marcelo made those statements when he was queried by Sulit why he (Marcelo) was pushing Dennis Villa-Ignacio to be the next Ombudsman when earlier he (Marcelo) was pushing for Villa-Ignacio’s appointment as Chief Justice of the high court. Chavez said it is obvious that Marcelo, alluding to the name partners of “The Firm,” was making a mockery of, and trifling with the nomination process of the JBC. “They (Marcelo) made light of it and, in the process, denigrated the standing of their own nominee, Villa-lgnacio, to spite the entire nomination process because, at that point, it became clear to them’ that “Justice Renato Corona was going to be appointed Chief Justice, and not their Founding Partner Antonio Carpio,” Chavez added. .... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100716hed1.html

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