Noynoy at 26: "So young and so corrupt!"
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Billy Esposo has finally wrecked his chair when he supplanted Manny Villar's story with his own fairy tales
about the death of the senator's brother. What floored me was citing FEU Hospital as the equivalent of St.
Luke's at that time. What he did not tell us was the brother was admitted in the charity ward. The correct
analogy would have been Ospital ng Makati or Ospital ng Maynila.
By the way, the Noynoy Aquino headquarters denied yesterday that it has been the source of the black
propaganda that is being machined into the emails and the internet. Duh? But who wrote this new evil report
but one of my favorite clowns who have connections with two outfielders here in California and direct access
to Ateneo HS Batch '58 who circularized that plush mansion in Salt Lake City, Utah as being owned by Villar
which eventually turned out to be owned by an Arab and has become a favorite shooting location in
Hollywood.
And of course, Solita Monsod, seconded Billy's motion. She has been noisy lately after her husband
Christian Monsod, one of Meralco's longest sitting member of the board of directors, who lost his job as
positions were shuffled with the dilution of the Lopez interests with the coming in of Philippine Long
Distance Company and San Miguel Corporation to the majority stockholdings of the power company. I tell
you, that was some cheezy comfort zone to lose. I am not sure what Christian is doing but I am sure with the
golden parachute he got, he can still afford to hire maids to wash dishes and dirty clothes for Solita.
So before you ride on tigers, be sure you don't end up inside!
Then there was confetti in the Liberal Party headquarters when the March SWS and the Manila Standard
numbers came out. But of course those surveys were taken third week of March when net impressions
following black propaganda attacking Villar reached their peak.
What it has not yet factored, that will be out in the next survey, are the dark clouds brought about by the New
York Times expose about the lie Noynoy has been spreading about distributing Hacienda Luisita to the
farmers and even later the Manula Standard report about how he used the Malacanang ectension at Arlegui
as office and marketing base for a security agency he set up with his uncle when her mother Cory was
president.
And many more are coming.
Imagine at 24, like Mayor Lacson criticized Councilor Ernesto Maceda, we now pass on the torch to Noynoy
Aquino - At 24, "so young and so corrupt"!
No spins necessary, just straight from Emil Jurado's mouth. Now this:
The truth about Noynoy
To the Point
By Emil Jurado, Manila Standard, March 30, 2010
Before the supporters of Liberal Party standard bearer Senator Benigno Aquino III start jumping like
chimpanzees over the latest poll survey results showing their candidate widening his lead, at 39 percent,
over his nearest rival Nacionalista Party standard bearer Senator Manuel Villar, with 26 percent, they should
be told that it’s a long way to go until May 10.
Santa Banana, that’s 42 days from today, and in our kind of elections, politics remains the art of the possible!
I maintain that it’s still a four-way fight for the presidency—among Aquino, Villar, former President Joseph
Estrada and administration candidate Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro.
Those who know Philippine elections well will tell you that nothing is certain until about two or three weeks
before Election Day.
My gulay, there are so many imponderables in our kind of elections, even with automation—vote-buying,
command votes, peace and order, even power outages!
Sooner or Later
As they say, sooner or later the truth will come out.
Now, the truth about Noynoy Aquino, the allegedly incorruptible and presidential candidate (at least
according to his propagandists masquerading as opinion writers), is catching up with him.
This newspaper reported last week that shortly after People Power, that revolution that benefited Noynoy’s
mother, Noynoy established a security agency that provided services to government corporations and even a
company of taipans.
Noynoy was then 26 years old. In the incorporation papers of Best Security Agency, a company which carried
his initials and which Noynoy ran with his uncle, Len Oreta (husband of former Senator Tessie Aquino
Oreta), Noynoy used the address of his mother in Arlegui.
Oreta was chairman and president, Cipriano Lacson was director-treasurer, while Noynoy, George Gaddi, a
Customs broker, Bienvenido Reyes, Alexander Lopez (son of former Manila mayor and now Manila Rep. Mel
Lopez) were directors. Reyes is now Court of Appeals justice, appointed by President Arroyo. At one point,
Noynoy’s agency had close to 1,000 security guards, but now has only about 300, according to Noynoy’s.
The cop-out (palusot) of Noynoy, when asked why he used Arlegui, the late President Cory’s official address,
was: “What could I do? I lived in Arlegui at time. What’s so illegal about that?”
Santa Banana, Noynoy’s security agency had as clients facilities and buildings of companies sequestered
by the Presidential Commission on Good Government. Others were the Philippine National Oil Company,
Asiatrust, Tanduay Distilleries of Lucio Tan and Uniwide.
The Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act is clear on conflicts of interest. “It is unlawful for any person having
family or close personal relation with any public official to capitalize or exploit or take advantage of such
family or close personal relation by directly or indirectly requesting or receiving any present, gift or material or
pecuniary advantage from any other person having some business, transaction, application, request or
contract with the government, in which such public official has to intervene.”
My gulay, Noynoy did not only use Arlegui as his official address but used his relation to his late mother as
an advantage. And yet, he had the cheek to claim that he never committed a corrupt act.
Remember "Hindi Ako Magnanakaw"
But that’s Aquino—the candidate claiming he’s fighting graft and corruption, presenting himself as untainted
and vowing that he won’t steal—for you. Well, what was it with his security agency bagging contracts with
government corporations? Wasn’t that a conflict of interest punishable under the Anti-Graft and Corrupt
Practices Act?
This reminds me, wasn’t this same group of Noynoy in the security agency that got involved, during the Cory
regime, in the smuggling of Mercedes Benzes and BMWs from Germany, which led a very reputable finance
secretary at that time to resign, but was prevailed upon by Cory to accept another cabinet portfolio? Ask
Customs old-timers and they’ll you what happened.
I can only recall what the late acerbic Manila Mayor Arsenic Lacson said of a young councilor: “So young and
so corrupt!”#
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