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Political persecution EDITORIAL 05/17/2012

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Political persecution

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05/17/2012
For sure, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales didn’t obtain the alleged bank transactions from the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) for the purpose of getting another impeachment complaint readied by December 2012, or some seven months from now.
What was evident was that Carpio-Morales misused that claimed power to get the so-called transactions from the alleged bank accounts of Chief Justice Renato Corona, came up with her seriously flawed “analysis” to picture him as not only guilty of not having included all those bloated millions in dollars in his statement of assets and liabilities networth (SALn) but also guilty of having hidden ill-gotten wealth and money laundering during the impeachment trial.

What this means is that the Noynoy Ombudsman, prodded by her political patron, has used her legally questionable power for political persecution, which is a no-no, even under the law..... MORE

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