Here’s one for Heidi
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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
It’s 2-0 against newly appointed 0Commission on Audit (CoA) Commissioner Heidi Mendoza. After the United Nations denied having given the military $5 million some years back which Mendoza alleged was “missing” during her “shock and woe” testimony in the Senate, we just learned that the Sandiganbayan also issued a decision discrediting the prosecution’s evidence against former Makati Mayor Elenita Binay which was based principally on the findings of a team led by Mendoza herself.That really comes as a shock to us mortals after we somehow elevated Mendoza to near stardom after that riveting performance in the congressional inquiry on alleged corruption in the AFP.
In dismissing the graft case filed in 2001 against former Makati Mayor Elenita Binay, wife of Vice President Binay, and her co-accused, Nicanor Santiago Jr. and Ernesto Aspillaga over alleged over pricing of office equipment purchased from 2000 to 2001, the Sandiganbayan exclaimed “it remains in disbelief that the prosecution came to court with such shoddy evidence,” noting that the prosecution “relied merely on the testimonies of the auditors which were insufficient to establish guilt.” It then scored the manner by which the audit findings were arrived at advising that “without a doubt, there are fundamental issues of arbitrariness in the audit procedures adopted.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110413com4.html
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