Comments on: Whatever Happened to that PIPC Scam in 2007 ???

By: Walter Carillo

Walter Carillo — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:13:50 +0000

I agree with MP. We pinoy hate Totalitarianism, thats why our ancestors fought the Spaniards, Americans and Japanese. But truly what we need is a “Overhaul” in our government, society and way of life. Find whats corrupt and rotten, then replace everything and everyone. We complain but actually do nothing, expecting someone else to just solve our problems. True change should come from the people.

By: MP

MP — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:21:08 +0000

I find it tragic that most pinoys are ningas-cugon and easily move on to the next controversial issue. Clarissa is right, months from now, the PDAF scandal will be forgotten and the likes of Jinggoy, Enrile and Bong will be re-elected or elected to higher posts. We deserve the kind of government we have. There is no doubt that Binay will be our next president and we can all say goodbye to any “daang matuwid” efforts. Etta and her HR advocates will hate me for saying this but our country needs a Duterte who shoots people breaking the law!

By: Monty

Monty — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:02:06 +0000

Marixie, we always hope that the justice system will get better, but sadly the improvements have been quite minimal so far. Well at least GMA is in detention, but to what the final outcome of this case may be, who knows. Even if convicted, a Binay presidency would most likely pardon her anyway, along with all the senators involved in the Napoles scam. Remember, the Marcoses and their cronies never answered for their crimes, with some of them offering a revisionist version of history to wash their hands clean.

MM, you conducted a poll regarding possible presidential contenders. I hope you do a follow up post to get commenters to sound off on what they really think.

By: pixienixie

pixienixie — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:00:41 +0000

Read your original post, and it saddens me how scams like this continue to rip off many of our kababayans who are oftentimes looking for that elusive pot of gold.

Completely off-topic, though: did you know you’re mentioned in an article from pepper.ph? Here’s the link: https://www.pepper.ph/taxes-public-shaming-inaccuracies-birs-delinquent-restaurants-ads/

The article links to your post about the matter, too. :)

By: Clarissa

Clarissa — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:18:32 +0000

I had to read the old articles to which I knew nothing about because I was just fresh out of college then. Why look so far behind? We haven’t heard anything from the PDAF issue which was only last year. Only one elected official is reacting to it now. I can just imagine that in a few months how forgotten this issue will be. And somebody reacting to it after ten years how the family has “gotten away” with it.

By: marixie

marixie — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:03:05 +0000

To Monty: the Madoff scam occured in the USA. Here in the USA they (government,justice dept,etc) GET YOU if you committed a crime (although there are still some who do get away). Do you really expect the Philippines to do the same? It is not amazing that no adverse outcome has been publicly reported because most likely there were no penalties meted out to the perpetrators, just the way things have always been run in the Phil…unfortunately.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 14:54:51 +0000

Monty, that is a great comparison, and I agree, the wheels of justice creak slowly here in many cases. It’s amazing that no outcome of any sort has been publicly reported regarding the folks that participated in this scam…

By: Monty

Monty — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:09:21 +0000

The Madoff scam happened after PIPC, yet no progress seems to have been made in the latter’s case. Madoff has been convicted and sentenced to life, his son committed suicide because of the shame, yet here nothing seems to have happened. Similar circumstances yet different outcomes due to an inutile justice system.