{"id":23330,"date":"2014-08-23T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23330"},"modified":"2014-08-23T21:14:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T13:14:44","slug":"bongbong-marcos-pork-benefited-quezon-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/23\/bongbong-marcos-pork-benefited-quezon-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Bongbong Marcos\u2019 pork benefited Quezon town"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17261\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/220px-Bongbong_Marcos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17261\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/220px-Bongbong_Marcos.jpg\" alt=\"Bongbong Marcos (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"220\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bongbong Marcos (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Following the Commission on Audit\u2019s (COA\u2019s) order asking the return of Sen. Bongbong Marcos\u2019 pork, a Quezon Mayor maintained that his town benefited from the senator\u2019s Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe project helped our farmers in improving their harvests, not only in one season but also in several that followed,\u201d\u00a0Mayor Leovegildo\u00a0 Ruzol\u00a0 of General Nakar town, Quezon province, was quoted saying in a Philippine Daily Inquirer report.<\/p>\n<p>Ruzol was pertaining to the P10-million livelihood project which was channeled to the town through the Social Development Program for Farmers Foundation Inc. (SDPFFI).<\/p>\n<p>He also added that the budget did not pass through the local treasury and went directly to SDPFFI.<\/p>\n<p>The said foundation, however, was listed among the bogus organizations linked to the alleged pork barrel scam mastermind, Janet Lim-Napoles.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier report, the COA labeled the channeling of funds to the SDPFFI as \u201cillegal and irregular,\u201d questioning the foundation\u2019s legality.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Marcos, however, contested the argument in a statement to the Philippine Daily Inquirer saying that there are no basis for COA\u2019s order, asking him to return the funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely, this is devoid of any factual and legal basis,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The senator also said he would appeal against the notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Following the Commission on Audit\u2019s (COA\u2019s) order asking the return of Sen. Bongbong Marcos\u2019 pork, a Quezon Mayor &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":17261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[6029,706],"class_list":["post-23330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-bongbong-marcos","tag-pork","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23330","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=23330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}