{"id":174323,"date":"2018-07-31T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T02:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=174323"},"modified":"2018-07-31T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T02:46:09","slug":"6-suspected-funneling-20m-us-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/31\/6-suspected-funneling-20m-us-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"6 suspected of funneling $20M into US from Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_102056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102056\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/janet-napoles-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102056\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/janet-napoles-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/janet-napoles-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/janet-napoles-1-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that Jannet Napoles and the five other defendants allegedly diverted Philippine government funds intended to benefit poor Filipinos. (File photo: PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Federal prosecutors say a Filipino woman and five of her family members have been indicted for conspiring to funnel into the U.S. some $20 million in Philippine public funds obtained through an intricate bribery and fraud scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that Jannet Napoles and the five other defendants allegedly diverted Philippine government funds intended to benefit poor Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say the money was used to purchase assets in the U.S., including property and luxury vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Napoles and the others are charged with money laundering and conspiracy. Officials are working to have the defendants extradited to the U.S. from the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>The others named in the indictment are Jo Napoles, James Napoles, Jeane Napoles, Reynald Lim and Ana Lim.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t known if they have attorneys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Federal prosecutors say a Filipino woman and five of her family members have been indicted for conspiring &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":102056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174323","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}