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Continue reading →: The River That Filed a Plunder Case: Dong Gonzales and the Art of Forgetting Your Divestment DateFeaturing the Gonzales Family Business Model: Public Office Up Front, Private Profit Out Back By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — August 8, 2026 Concrete Confessions: When Flood Walls File Their Own Charge Sheet The photographs are the first witnesses. They do not lie, equivocate, or lawyer up. Dated July 30,…
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Continue reading →: Regalado v. Reality: The RTC Acquits, the Ombudsman ConvictsThe Law Says Discretion; The Evidence Says Predilection. The Republic Says: Wake Me When the Sandiganbayan Weighs In By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 8, 2026 THE Ombudsman’s six-month preventive suspension of Insurance Commissioner Reynaldo Regalado is not a morality play. It is a mirror. It reflects the precise…
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Continue reading →: Affidavits for Sale: The ₱56-Billion Plunder Case and the Witnesses Who Treat Perjury Like a Side HustleThe Going Rate for Truth, the Cost of Silence, and Why Senate Hearings Are Just Post-Purchase Reviews. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 7, 2026 They have withdrawn their faces from public view—the only honest withdrawal they have made throughout this entire sordid affair. The Predictable Pirouette of the…
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Continue reading →: “Natrabaho”: One Word, One Ombudsman, and a Judiciary on TrialWhen the Head Prosecutor Whispers What the Whole Republic Is Screaming By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 7, 2026 THE structure does not exist. The Sandiganbayan justices went to Barangay Bunsuran, Pandi, Bulacan, and saw for themselves: no concrete, no rebar, no flood control barrier. Just, as the inspection…
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Continue reading →: Congratulations, Sara Leads—But the Fastest-Growing Bloc Is ‘None of the Above’Sara Drops, Leni Flatlines, and the Undecided Just Threw a Block Party in NCR By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 6, 2026 THE latest OCTA Research survey on the 2028 presidential race arrived last week with the solemnity of a weather report announcing an approaching storm. Vice President Sara…
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Continue reading →: Opening Doors, Striking ‘Scams’: How Kapunan Outplayed the Duterte Defense”Poa Opened a Door; Kapunan Burned the Whole House Down By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 6, 2026 SO this is what accountability looks like in the Republic of the Philippines: a polite courtroom brawl over who opened what door, while the public funds allegedly blown on “Mary Grace…
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Continue reading →: Reprimand for a Billion: How GSIS Turned a P1.45B Gamble Into a Parking TicketAmbiguous Rules, Absent Board, and the Art of the P50-Million Dodge By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo –– August 5, 2026 THE Office of the Ombudsman has finally delivered its verdict on the P1.45-billion Alternergy preferred-share gambit, and the Republic’s 2.7 million government workers—whose compulsory contributions funded this adventure—may now rest…
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Continue reading →: Boka-Boka Billionaires: How the DPWH Resurrected Pork and Made Bribery Perfectly LegalThe Supreme Court Killed PDAF—So the DPWH Built a Smarter, Sleeker, Unprosecutable Monster By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 5, 2026 WHEN the Supreme Court killed the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) in 2013, the political class didn’t mourn. They simply innovated. They retreated to their air-conditioned offices, lit…
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Continue reading →: Pantay na Hustisya, Please: The Romualdez Plea the Ombudsman Doesn’t Want to HearFrozen Accounts, Shifting Witnesses, and a Defense Nobody Wants to Acknowledge By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 4, 2026 IF you want to know how a cornered political titan wages war, you don’t look to the courts of law. You look to the theater of public opinion. It’s a…
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Continue reading →: The Revilla Graia-vy Train: How a Dynasty Legalized Looting in Plain SightA Story of Flood Control Projects That Drowned Only in Corruption By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 4, 2026 Spot-the-Anomaly 101: The 97% Cavite Jackpot Let’s play a game of spot-the-anomaly. In the nine years from 2016 to 2025, a company called Graia Construction Corporation won 67 government contracts…
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