lapid issue 5

In 2009, then Pampanga governor Ed Panlilio filed a plunder complaint against Lapid and his son Mark Lapid for allegedly failing to remit P568-million worth of quarry funds during their respective terms as governor. Then ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez cleared the Lapids in 2011 after the accuser “miserably fail[ed] to show that respondents acquired ill-gotten wealth.”