{"id":26884,"date":"2014-09-26T12:27:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T04:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=26884"},"modified":"2025-01-19T04:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T09:46:27","slug":"witnesses-tell-court-what-drilon-earlier-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/26\/witnesses-tell-court-what-drilon-earlier-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnesses tell court what Drilon earlier confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11415\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Franklin-Drilon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11415\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Franklin-Drilon-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Senate President Franklin Drilon. Photo courtesy of Drilon's official Facebook page.\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Franklin-Drilon-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Franklin-Drilon-600x375.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Franklin-Drilon.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate President Franklin Drilon. Photo courtesy of Drilon&#8217;s official Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Appearing at the anti-graft court on Thursday, two witnesses said Senate President Franklin Drilon had partied several times with alleged pork scam mastermind Janet Lim-Napoles.<\/p>\n<p>The details were earlier confirmed by Drilon.<\/p>\n<p>The witnesses also added that in 2009, the couple attended the death anniversary of Napoles\u2019 mother at the Heritage Park.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy propranolol online <a href=\"https:\/\/plasticsurgery90210.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/propranolol.html\">https:\/\/plasticsurgery90210.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/propranolol.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>During the bail hearing of Sen.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy mebendazole online <a href=\"https:\/\/plasticsurgery90210.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/mebendazole.html\">https:\/\/plasticsurgery90210.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/mebendazole.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Bong Revilla at the Sandiganbayan, Marina Sula, confirmed that she saw photographs of Drilon and his wife at gatherings of the Napoles family.<\/p>\n<p>Sula, a clerk, was also a former president of one of Napoles\u2019 bogus nongovernment organizations (NGOs).<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy finpecia online <a href=\"https:\/\/plasticsurgery90210.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/finpecia.html\">https:\/\/plasticsurgery90210.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/finpecia.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>While insisting that he is not involved with any of Napoles\u2019 schemes, Drilon has admitted that he attended several parties organized by Napoles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were there principally because of a priest from China. My wife works in the church and we were invited. It was a social gathering,\u201d Drilon said when contacted by phone on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat has come out before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Senators including Revilla, Juan Ponce Enrile and Jinggoy Estrada are now being charged for their alleged involvement in the channeling of allocations from their congressional Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) into ghost projects and kickbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Appearing at the anti-graft court on Thursday, two witnesses said Senate President Franklin Drilon had partied several times &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,1],"tags":[4772,1555],"class_list":["post-26884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","category-uncategorized","tag-drilon","tag-napoles","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26884","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=26884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285685,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26884\/revisions\/285685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}