Senate frees ex-LTA staffer
By Angie M. Rosales 08/26/2011Bowing to public sentiment against the Senate on the arrogant and abusive treatment certain senators give their “invited” resource persons and guests whom they categorize as “hostile,” the Senate yesterday freed former LTA bookkeeper Rowena del Rosario from detention.
She was earlier placed under arrest and ordered detained “indefinitely” for being evasive in her answers to the questions posed to her by the senators, who didn’t like her answers, as she held on to her claim that it was Rep. Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo who had leased the helicopters and not bought them.
But the former bookkeeper of Iggy for the past 11 years yesterday admitted before Senate probers that she was unaware of the existence of his supposed Jose Pidal bank accounts while he was still her boss.
Rowena told the blue ribbon committee that she did not know or encounter the controversial bank account alleged to be owned by former First Gentleman Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110826hed1.html
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