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| Napolist by Rene Aranda, Philstar |
Ping’s list sanitized, LP biggies now airbrushed
TRIBUNE. Written by Ninez Cacho-Olivares, 10 May 2014
PALACE, DOJ LIST SANITATION ONGOINGUnable to get Janet Lim-Napoles to clean up her list without reduced charges and bail guarantees, a highly reliable source who has linked up with someone in the office of former Sen. Panfilo Lacson, now the Rehabilitation czar, told the Tribune late yesterday afternoon that Lacson has caved in to presidential pressure and has sanitized the list he says he has that was given to him by Jimmy Napoles, the husband of the alleged pork barrel scam brains who is now in hospital.
The Lacson sanitized list which was fed to a major yellow broadsheet contains some 18 names, but the names of Budget Chief Florencio Butch Abad, Senate President Franklin Drilon and Agriculture chief Proceso Alcala no longer appear in the Lacson sanitized list. Also no longer appearing in the Lacson sanitized list are at least three to four allies of President Aquino.
The broadsheet is said to be releasing the sanitized and longer list early next week.
“The reason for the office of Ping Lacson to have released the sanitized list to the newspaper,” the Tribune source said is that the initial list publicized in the Tribune, which came from the
Napoles
camp and the list that Sandra Cam has which she has vowed to make
public should the list be sanitized by De Lima, as well as Napoles’
original list will no longer be seen as credible, as the
Lacson-sanitized list that will be published by the major broadsheet
will be Lacson’s list, and there may be no need anymore to make a deal
with Napoles over her cleansed list and affidavit.There has also been pressure from the Senate to have the list made public, and with the list of Lacson now sanitized, the Senate blue ribbon panel is now ready to hold a hearing that will highlight the Lacson sanitized list.
The senators, led by Frank Drilon, along with Francis Escudero and Alan Cayetano were already assured by the Palace and De Lima that their names no longer appear in the Lacson list to be presented publicly.
Outside of the cleansing of the names of Abad, Drilon and Alcala, also airbrushed out of the Napoles initial list that was given to Justice chief Leila de Lima, which she had presented to President Aquino, immediately after her having met Napoles in the Makati Hospital before her scheduled hysterectomy and an overian cyst, are Senators Francis “Chiz” Escudero, a valued ally and Alan Peter Cayetano, Manny Villar, among others.
Instead, several other names of former and incumbent senators’ names have been included, namely former Sen. Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel, his son Sen. Koko Pimentel, Sen. Robert Barbers, or his son, as the sanitized Lacson list the source handed Tribune didn’t have a Jr. attached to the Barbers name, Senators Loren Legarda, Miriam Santiago, Tito Sotto, Gregorio Honasan, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, former Sen. Loi Estrada, her son, Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, Senators Juan Ponce-Enrile, Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla and his father, former Sen. Ramon Revilla, former Senators Rodolfo Biazon and Ramon “Jun” Magsaysay, and Robert Jaworski. Then congressman now Sen. JV Ejercito was also named in the sanitized list. Read full article on TRIBUNE.
AND NOW PNOY SAYS:
Aquino admits seeing 2 Napoles lists
By TJ Burgonio, Philippine Daily Inquirer
NAYPYITAW, Burma — President Benigno Aquino III has let the cat out of the bag: He has seen two lists of alleged pork barrel scam players from Janet Lim Napoles.
The President, however, admitted being “taken aback’’ by the fact that the two lists differ on the number of players involved. The second list itself is unsigned.
“I have seen two, and they don’t agree with each other exactly, and they are supposed to have come from Mrs. Napoles,’’ he told reporters at a hotel here Sunday night before flying back to Manila.
The “fluctuations’’ in the number of players involved were so glaring that he had wondered aloud: “Ano ba talaga, Ate? (Which one is the real thing, Sis?)’’
“Will I ask her why she changed? And I don’t want to talk to her. She can talk to the people who will be in a position to evaluate evidence and that means primarily lawyers,’’ he said.
Mr. Aquino said the list handed by Napoles’ family to rehabilitation czar Secretary Panfilo Lacson was another list, and that even this has a “substantial detail’’ that differs from the two.
Mr. Aquino indicated that Napoles or her camp transmitted the first list to him at a time when she “didn’t want to talk’’ to Justice Secretary Leila de Lima. He gave this list to De Lima.
The second list was personally handed by Napoles to De Lima after a five-hour-long talk in April where the alleged scam mastermind vowed to tell all and offered to turn state witness.
And contrary to the perception of many, Mr. Aquino said this second list was unsigned.
“Are you saying supposedly signed? My understanding is that it is still a work in progress. The way she was narrating certain things, she will show some alleged evidence to it, then she’d go off on tangents,’’ he said.
And given the discrepancies, disclosing it in public becomes problematic, he said.
“Is it safe to reveal? Even that by itself you have to resolve first. Why are there differences from the information you are getting from one witness who is supposed to be narrating facts?’’ he said.
“So one cannot escape the suspicion that instead of trying to clarify matters, [they] are trying to cloud the whole issue. That makes the process much more difficult at arriving at the truth,’’ he added. Read full article on INQUIRER
