Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Pork barrel ‘queen’ parties with solons

Source: Rappler.com 
LET'S PARTY. Janet Lim-Napoles, left (standing), rubs elbows with senators Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla in this photo taken during a party in Estrada's favorite hangout in San Juan. The man second from right is businessman Jaime Dichaves, who has owned to the Jose Velarde account initially linked to former President Joseph Estrada.LET'S PARTY. Janet Lim-Napoles, left (standing), rubs elbows with senators Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla in this photo taken during a party in Estrada's favorite hangout in San Juan. The man second from right is businessman Jaime Dichaves, who has owned to the Jose Velarde account initially linked to former President Joseph Estrada.
LET’S PARTY. Janet Lim-Napoles, left (standing), rubs elbows with senators Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla in this photo taken during a party in Estrada’s favorite hangout in San Juan. The man second from right is businessman Jaime Dichaves, who has owned to the Jose Velarde account initially linked to former President Joseph Estrada.LET’S PARTY. Janet Lim-Napoles, left (standing), rubs elbows with senators Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla in this photo taken during a party in Estrada’s favorite hangout in San Juan. The man second from right is businessman Jaime Dichaves, who has owned to the Jose Velarde account initially linked to former President Joseph Estrada.
MANILA, Philippines – The woman at the center of the alleged pork barrel scam has partied and rubbed elbows with lawmakers, indicating she’s more than an acquaintance to them.
Photos obtained by Rappler show businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles, owner of the JLN Group of Companies, and some of her family members attending a party apparently hosted by Sen Jinggoy Estrada.
In the photos, a smiling Napoles is seen table-hopping and posing for the cameras like it was her own party. One of the photos shows Sen Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr and actor Phillip Salvador – two of Estrada’s closest friends – posing with Napoles.
We learned that the party where the photos were taken was held at Estrada’s favorite hangout in San Juan City.
Estrada and Revilla were among the 28 lawmakers tagged by whistleblowers – former employees and associates of Napoles – as sources of the Priority Development Assistance Fund or pork barrel released to Napoles’ bogus non-governmental organizations through government agencies and corporations [...]
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