By ELLEN TORDESILLAS, AVIGAIL OLARTE, YVONNE CHUA and LUZ RIMBAN PRESIDENTIAL son Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo failed to declare to the Commission on Elections contributions that he said he received when he ran for Congress in 2004 and 2007. Mikey said on national television Tuesday that campaign contributions and wedding gifts were partly the reason
Philippine Daily Inquirer‘s Sept. 6 editorial on Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo’s assets: Mikey’s hideaway To nobody’s surprise, Speaker Prospero Nograles quickly shrugged off the failure of Pampanga Representative Mikey Arroyo, who is believed to have worked behind the scene to put Nograles in the Speakership, to declare in his 2007 and 2008 Statement
PRESIDENTIAL son and Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo continues to be in the news after VERA Files reported a P63.7 million San Francisco Bay property he failed to declare in his 2007 and 2008 Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth. Some of the stories: Mikey Arroyo under fire on YouTube—Philippine Daily Inquirer Malacañang
FOLLOWING are the editorials of the Philippine Star and Malaya (Sept. 2) and Daily Tribune (Sept. 1) on the presidential sons’ California homes reported by VERA Files. Philippine Star‘s “Because they can”: Following in the footsteps of his parents, Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel Arroyo is now under fire for assets that he reportedly failed to
By AVIGAIL OLARTE FOLLOWING a VERA Files report on Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo’s failure to declare in his latest asset declarations a multi-million-peso property in California, three party-list representatives filed Tuesday a resolution that seeks “to investigate the loopholes in the SALN (Statements of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth) disclosure system using the
By AVIGAIL OLARTE PAMPANGA Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo said that as far as he and his lawyers are concerned, it is perfectly legal for a public official not to declare houses and other assets in their Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Networth (SALN) if these assets are under a company’s name, as long as
THE house at 1655 Beach Park Blvd. in Foster City, California remains registered in the name of Angela Arroyo Montenegro, wife of presidential son and Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo, data from the San Mateo County assessor’s office show. As of Monday, Aug. 31, the latest entry in the assessor’s office was dated April
MALACANANG defended Monday presidential sons Juan Miguel and Diosdado Arroyo over their purchase of luxury homes in the United States after the two were elected congressmen in the 2007 elections, according to a gmanews.tv report. Deputy presidential spokesman Anthony Golez Jr. said people should not judge them and should instead wait for the two congressmen
VERA Files is bringing back this August 2009 story, which exposes the existence of the Foster City, California home listed in the name of Angela Montenegro Arroyo, wife of Congressman and former First Son Juan MIguel Arroyo. The couple is facing charges they failed to pay taxes amounting to more P73 million when Mikey's mother Gloria was president.
