{"id":12733,"date":"2014-05-29T14:57:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T06:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=12733"},"modified":"2014-05-31T15:09:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T07:09:55","slug":"pdaf-lawyer-baligod-weds-ex-mayoralty-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/29\/pdaf-lawyer-baligod-weds-ex-mayoralty-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"PDAF lawyer Baligod weds ex-mayoralty candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12734\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/10299532_441274172676296_4878913912875737277_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12734\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/10299532_441274172676296_4878913912875737277_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Pork scam lawyer Levito Baligod marries Marilou \u201cMalot\u201d Veloso-Galenzoga \/ Photo from Marilou Galenzoga's official Facebook page\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/10299532_441274172676296_4878913912875737277_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/10299532_441274172676296_4878913912875737277_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pork scam lawyer Levito Baligod marries Marilou \u201cMalot\u201d Veloso-Galenzoga \/ Photo from Marilou Galenzoga&#8217;s official Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Pork barrel scam lawyer Levito Baligod married former mayoralty candidate Marilou \u201cMalot\u201d Veloso-Galenzoga, months after he was dropped as lawyer for the whistleblowers.<\/p>\n<p>In an intimate ceremony at the San Antonio de Padua Church in Silang, Cavite on Wednesday, Baligod remarried after losing his wife to cancer in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Galenzoga\u2019s chief of staff said that the couple has chosen to avoid publicity adding that the ceremony was not meant for VIPs.<\/p>\n<p>The wedding was exclusive only for family, close friends, and Galenzoga\u2019s political staff and no other politicians except for Vice President Jejomar Binay &#8212; who was invited as principal sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>Although Binay is not personally acquainted with Baligod, he is a close friend of Galenzoga who became his local leader during the 2013 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The bride\u2019s sister, Carlyn Ann Galenzoga, earlier disclosed in a Rappler report that the couple met in a party held at their sister, Dayday Dieza\u2019s house in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The courtship started only later after the Super Typhoon Yolanda during\u00a0a difficult time in the bride&#8217;s mayoral campaign.<\/p>\n<p><em>With reports from Jed Cortes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Pork barrel scam lawyer Levito Baligod married former mayoralty candidate Marilou \u201cMalot\u201d Veloso-Galenzoga, months after he was dropped &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[4318,1061],"class_list":["post-12733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-levito-baligod","tag-wedding","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}