{"id":13243,"date":"2014-06-03T01:46:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T17:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13243"},"modified":"2014-08-28T23:59:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T15:59:50","slug":"enrile-expresses-readiness-to-face-pork-scam-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/03\/enrile-expresses-readiness-to-face-pork-scam-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrile expresses readiness to face &#8216;pork&#8217; scam trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2190\" style=\"width: 938px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/juan-ponce-enrile-headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2190\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/juan-ponce-enrile-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile. Photo by Lilem Uy \/ PCIJ\" width=\"938\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/juan-ponce-enrile-headshot.jpg 938w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/juan-ponce-enrile-headshot-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile. Photo by Lilem Uy \/ PCIJ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Senate minority leader Juan Ponce Enrile on Monday declared he is ready to face plunder and graft charges set to be filed by the Office of the Ombudsman at the Sandiganbayan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI\u2019m prepared to deal with the problem in the court room,\u201d Enrile said in media interview before Monday session.<\/p>\n<p>Enrile made his reaction to reports that Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales is set to file charges against Enrile and pork barrel scam co-accused Senators Jinggoy Estrada and Ramon Revilla Jr. once she returns from official trip in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI\u2019m waiting for their (Ombudsman) move. I\u2019m not bothered. In a fair trial, I\u2019m ready to face anybody,\u201d the 90-year-old lawmaker said.<\/p>\n<p>Enrile, a lawyer by profession, said his lawyers are prepared to handle his plunder case.<\/p>\n<p>The three senators will face arrest once the Office of the Ombudsman files the plunder charges with the Sandiganbayan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAs a law practitioner, I grew in the court room,\u201d Enrile said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Revilla\u2019s lawyer Joel Bodegon criticized the Ombudsman for saying there are enough evidence to file plunder charges against the three senators in the alleged P10-billion priority development assistance fund (PDAF) scam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe Ombudsman\u2019s statements clearly show her bias against those who she should be investigating with impartiality and fairness,\u201d Bodegon said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>Bodegon said the Ombudsman\u2019s bias \u201cis further confirmed by her denial of our pleas to be furnished copies of all the counter-affidavits and other evidence submitted by other respondents because allegedly \u2018there is no cogent reason\u2019 for our request.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Senate minority leader Juan Ponce Enrile on Monday declared he is ready to face plunder and graft charges &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[237,392,1579],"class_list":["post-13243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-juan-ponce-enrile","tag-pdaf-scam","tag-pork-barrel-scam","mauthors-jelly-f-musico","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243","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=13243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}