{"id":26711,"date":"2014-09-24T14:59:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T06:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=26711"},"modified":"2014-09-24T18:01:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T10:01:26","slug":"assoc-justice-dismissed-for-fraternizing-with-napoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/24\/assoc-justice-dismissed-for-fraternizing-with-napoles\/","title":{"rendered":"Assoc Justice dismissed for \u201cfraternizing\u201d with Napoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15186\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/court-room-law-judge-justice-gavel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15186\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/court-room-law-judge-justice-gavel-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/court-room-law-judge-justice-gavel-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/court-room-law-judge-justice-gavel-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/court-room-law-judge-justice-gavel-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/court-room-law-judge-justice-gavel.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Supreme Court on Tuesday voted for the dismissal of Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Gregory Ong for his involvement with the alleged pork barrel scam brains, Janet Lim-Napoles.<\/p>\n<p>In an 8-5 vote, the justices of the high court declared Ong as guilty of grave misconduct, dishonesty and impropriety for \u201cfraternizing\u201d with Napoles.<\/p>\n<p>The said misconduct was done during the time when Napoles\u2019 case and the cases of the other accused were under Ong\u2019s sala.<\/p>\n<p>Ong is the first justice of the anti-graft court to be removed from service since the court\u2019s creation on June 11, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Justices who formerly served the anti-graft court including Associate Justices Teresita Leonardo-de Castro and Diosdado Peralta inhibited themselves from the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima hailed the court\u2019s decision adding that it is an affirmation of the court\u2019s integrity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally deciding to dismiss rather than merely suspend Justice Ong, the Supreme Court affirms that moral integrity is not divisible. It is the highest qualification for judges and justices. Members of the judiciary found lacking in integrity cannot be merely suspended because the character disqualification is permanent, not only incidental,\u201d De Lima said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>De Lima also added that \u201ctrust of the people in the justice system is best preserved by maintaining the highest levels of moral integrity in the superior courts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s order removing Ong as a member of the 15 justices in the Sandiganbayan will be immediately implemented, according to the anti-graft court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Supreme Court on Tuesday voted for the dismissal of Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Gregory Ong for his involvement &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[7951,1594],"class_list":["post-26711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-justice","tag-sandiganbayan","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26711","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=26711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}