CoA clears CJ on JDF
By Charlie V. Manalo and Benjamin B. Pulta 01/11/2012House prosecutors may just find their charges against Supreme Court Chief Justice collapsing, one by one.
Even before the impeachment trial formally commences, the House prosecutors have already lost round one of the battle after the Commission on Audit (CoA) cleared Chief Justice Renato Corona from any wrongdoing in the controversial Judiciary Development Fund (JDF) which is one of the charges in the impeachment complaint lodged against the CJ.
In its audit findings on the manner by which the high court spent the 2010 JDF collection, CoA belied claims by 188 complainant-congressmen that Corona had prevented state auditors from examining the way the JDF was disbursed..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20120111hed1.html
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