FACT CHECK: FALSE post on Heidi Mendoza’s UN appointment resurfaces
A false 2018 Facebook post of Bobi Tiglao claiming the late president Noynoy Aquino rewarded Heidi Mendoza with a United Nations nomination has resurfaced on social media.
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Government officials join call to prioritize FOI bill
EVEN government officials have now joined media practitioners and civil society organizations in urging President Benigno Aquino III to certify as urgent the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill, which has failed to make it to his list of priority bills.
Heidi Mendoza: A truthteller’s love story
By YVONNE T. CHUA
ROY Mendoza remembers Feb. 14, 2005 only too well.
He and his wife had to scrap plans of celebrating Valentine’s Day after her boss asked her to work overtime to pore over documents stored in nine boxes.
There would be other Valentine's Days, the boss explained, and the work at hand was truly urgent.
Former state auditor wins support for her truth crusade
BY ELLEN TORDESILLAS
FORMER state auditor Heidi Mendoza said she went to the hearing of the House of Representative committee on justice with only one purpose: to tell the truth of what she knows about the misuse of military funds when Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia was comptroller
Auditor in plunder case to launch truth campaign
By YVONNE T. CHUA and ELLEN TORDESILLAS
A FORMER state auditor who testified against ex-military comptroller Carlos Garcia disclosed over the weekend a “request” from a government office for her to tell the public the evidence in the plunder case against the retired major general is weak.
But the request, made about a week after the Sandiganbayan on Dec. 16 allowed Garcia to post bail on the basis of his plea bargain agreement with special prosecutors, has only strengthened Heidi Mendoza’s resolve to reveal what she says is “the truth behind the Garcia case.”
