Jinggoy should have been convicted of plunder
By Rigoberto D. Tiglao
January 24, 2024
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IF you read the 396-page decision — based on testimonies of 300 witnesses and over 100,000 documents — of the Sandiganbayan 1st Division that convicted Sen. Jose "Jinggoy' Estrada for the crime of bribery, you will be, as I was, astounded why the court did not convict him of the original charge of plunder.
Why? Sen. Jinggoy was convicted, while his colleague Sen. Bong Revilla was acquitted of similar pork-barrel scams. Senate Photo
The decision concluded that at least half of the P262 million of the Priority Development Assistance Funds (PDAF, the official term used for pork-barrel funds) allocated to Estrada from 2004 to...