PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III on Thursday slammed impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona for submitting "questionable" statements of assets, liabilities and net worth that he had tried to conceal for years by defying the law on public disclosure of net worth declarations. Read the full text of the speech.
FULL text of the record of the Senate sitting as impeachment court on Feb. 14.
By ELLEN TORDESILLAS
WHY is Malacañang vouching for the authenticity of the documents supposedly on the bank accounts of Chief Justice Renato Corona at the Philippine Savings Bank submitted by the prosecution to the impeachment court?
FULL TEXT of Corona's Feb. 13 supplemental petition before the Supreme Court
FULL TEXT of Corona's Feb. 8 petition for certiorari with TRO before the Supreme Court
By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE
ORIENTAL Mindoro Rep. Reynaldo Umali on Tuesday insisted that a “small lady” handed him the dubious photocopies of bank documents showing the accounts allegedly owned by Chief Justice Renato Corona, but he admitted he cannot prove his source’s existence.
“I have no proof, I have no proof but my word as an officer of the court,” Umali told reporters Tuesday.
FULL TEXT of the TRO on the implementation of the subpoena to PSBank Katipunan Branch. Also read Associate Justice Maria Lourdes P. A. Sereno's dissenting opinion and Associate Justice Arturo D. Brion's concurring opinion.
FULL text of the record of the Senate sitting as impeachment court on Feb. 13.
CHIEF Justice Renato Corona's Feb. 13 press statement explaining the source of his and his wife's wealth and attacking President Aquino and the prosecution panel.
By LALA ORDENES and ARTHA KIRA PAREDES
(Written by VERA Files for the Philippine Daily Inquirer's Talk of the Town)
ALL public officers and employees must submit a declaration under oath of their respective statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALNs) on April 30. In accomplishing the SALN, they could learn a lesson or two from arguably the most scrutinized SALN in Philippine history: that of impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Corona is on trial in the Senate for, among others, betrayal of public trust arising from his failure to disclose to the public his SALN. Article 11, Section 17 of the 1987 Constitution provides that “a public officer or employee shall, upon assumption of office and as often thereafter as may be required by law, submit a declaration under oath of his assets, liabilities and net worth.”
