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Alleging bribery and blackmail against an individual is easy, especially for a senator of the republic, but proving these crimes is fairly difficult, if not impossible — unless of course some kind of hard proof exists, such as a recorded conversation between the briber and blackmailer and the person being bribed.
Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano the other day bared to reporters that still to be confirmed by the Commission on Appointments Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes, through his emissaries, has resorted to blackmail and bribery to get Cayetano to withdraw his opposition to Brillantes’ appointment, for the new Comelec chief to breeze through his CA confirmation.
The blackmail, so said Cayetano, came when a threat was aired, presumably from the alleged emissaries regarding the protest filed by a losing Taguig mayoralty bet against the senator’s wife, who now sits as Taguig mayor, which Cayetano charged is being dangled by the Comelec chief..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110406com1.html
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