{"id":23854,"date":"2014-08-27T12:30:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T04:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23854"},"modified":"2014-08-27T21:20:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T13:20:35","slug":"complainant-admits-guessing-the-p1000-cake-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/27\/complainant-admits-guessing-the-p1000-cake-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Complainant admits guessing the P1,000 cake price"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14586\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14586\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Senate-Philippines-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14586 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Senate-Philippines-1.jpg\" alt=\"Senate of the Philippines. Wikipedia photo\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Senate-Philippines-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Senate-Philippines-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate of the Philippines. Wikipedia photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 A complainant in the plunder case against Vice President Jejomar Binay admitted that the price of the birthday cakes given out to senior citizens was just guesswork.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Iyon po\u2019y hula lang namin<\/em> (That is just our guess),\u201d Renato Bondal said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was made during a senate hearing after Bondal was asked by Sen. Vicente Sotto III to explain the basis for the pricing of the cake.<\/p>\n<p>Bondal earlier said that the cake was worth P1,000, an amount that is higher than the P570 and P590 cake price of similarly sized cakes from bakeshops like Goldilocks and Red Ribbon, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Saying that nobody in Makati actually knew the exact price of the cakes, Bondal sought Senate\u2019s help to subpoena the vouchers and checks used for the cakes.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged overpricing on the cakes came out after Bondal, a political rival of the Binays, earlier said in a senate hearing that the cakes handed put to senior citizens were overpriced.<\/p>\n<p>Bondal also brought with him some cake samples during the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Makati officials were asked on Tuesday to submit documents pertaining to the details of the cake-giving program.\u00a0The officials were asked to include specific details including the price of the cakes and the actual number of senior citizens who received the gifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 A complainant in the plunder case against Vice President Jejomar Binay admitted that the price of the birthday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,46],"tags":[5038,7563],"class_list":["post-23854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-entertainment-ph","tag-binay","tag-overpriced-cakes","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23854","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=23854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}