Archive for January, 2012

January 26, 2012 · Posted in: General

Joker concerned over multiple probes

SENATOR-JUDGE Joker Arroyo voiced his apprehension over the multiple investigations being conducted against Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona. Arroyo asked Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares if it was true that the BIR had already...

INTERNAL REVENUE COMMISSIONER Kim Henares said there was no proper payment of taxes by the wife of  Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona for some of the other income she earned as an official of the John Hay Management Corporation. Henares said...

INTERNAL REVENUE Commissioner Kim Henares today told the impeachment court that not all earnings are necessarily reflected in the income tax returns that taxpayers file every year. Responding to queries from Senator Francis Escudero on whether the...

January 26, 2012 · Posted in: General

When Can Evidence be Made Public?

Aren’t Income Tax Returns supposed to be sacrosanct? How did documents being presented in the Impeachment Trial reach the media even before they were formally offered as evidence? Is it a public trial in a peoples’ court, or is it going the way...

January 26, 2012 · Posted in: General

Day 7: A fiery opening salvo

TEN minutes into Day 7 of the Corona Impeachment trial, Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago lashed out at prosecution lawyer Arthur Lim failure to give prompt, direct answers to a crucial question she raised: Is the prosecution “charging the respondent...

PROSECUTION LAWYERS tried to pin down Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona based on how he and his wife Cristina could have purchased an P11 million property in La Vista subdivision when the couple had reported no other source of income other than...

DEFENSE LAWYERS immediately raised objections after prosecution lawyers, in their offer of testimony of Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares, said they will prove that Chief Justice Renato Corona acquired and hid ill-gotten wealth. Prosecution...