by The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
ALL THE CANDIDATES and political parties in the May 2016 elections received sundry donations from an amorphous mass of donors. All, too, are required to report these to the Commission on Elections’s Campaign Finance Office (CFO).Did the candidates tell the Comelec the full and true details of what they received in cash or in kind, […]
by The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
THE CANDIDATES for president, vice president, and senator, and their political parties who ran in the May 2016 elections received sums of donations but also incurred sums of expenses.Based on the information enrolled in the Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE) that they submitted to the Campaign Finance Office of the Commission on Elections, PCIJ […]
A trail of anonymous money
by Karol Ilagan
GERMELINA I. Taylor, Wilbert T. Lee, Danilo E. Suarez, and Teddie E. Rivera were among the 10 biggest donors of then presidential candidate Jejomar C. Binay. The four alone gave Binay P172.3 million altogether – except the money wasn’t really theirs.Taylor, Lee, Suarez, and Rivera were among 24 fundraisers who coordinated meetings, lunches, and dinners […]
The windfall of elections
by The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
FRANCISCO ‘Isko Moreno’ M. Domagoso may have been unsuccessful in his quest to have a Senate seat in last May’s elections, but Christmas still came quite early for the former Manila vice mayor.Once the dust had settled following the polls, Domagoso found himself with millions of pesos in excess campaign funds. To be exact, there […]
Puzzling personal spenders
by Karol Ilagan
IN AN increasingly gloomy world, it may be wise to choose the positive when presented with a myriad of possibilities. So when politicians plunk down considerable amounts of their own fortunes just to run for public office, perhaps it is really because they believe they can make a difference and do a lot of good.To […]
Campaign Finance Office in drift, headless
by Karol Ilagan and Malou Mangahas
THE IMAGE Rodrigo R. Duterte projected of his 2016 presidential campaign was that it was one run on a shoestring budget. It supposedly had no donors with vested interests, and that included big businessmen and mining firms.But the Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE) he filed with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) after he won […]
Campaign finance and the 2016 elections
by The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
IN 2010, PCIJ reported that only 308 donors contributed in the presidential race that Benigno Aquino III won. In the last presidential elections, where Rodrigo R. Duterte emerged as victor, that number has shot up to 830. Then again, there were nearly 56 million registered voters when the May 2016 elections took place, which makes […]
Sidebar
by The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
BY ALL indications, the May 2016 elections are no different from previous polls in which those donating to the campaign coffers of candidates and political parties turn out to be the same business owners and executives yet again. In past elections, the names of the prohibited corporations themselves were listed in the Statement of Contributions […]
The Death of Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr.
by Nancy C. Carvajal and Davinci Maru
LEYTE –- As authorities seem to be standing pat on their claim that a shootout occurred between Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. and the operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) 8 at the sub-provincial jail in Baybay, Leyte before dawn on Nov. 5, photos provided by a police insider to PCIJ appear […]
JUSTICE Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II, in a message relayed to the media by Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella, on Saturday denied that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had received a request for data on the drug war from PCIJ and the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG).Both Aguirre and Abella apparently do not know whereof they speak, […]
