{"id":3274,"date":"2014-03-03T03:19:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T11:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2014-03-04T05:16:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T13:16:06","slug":"pork-whistle-blower-cries-out-im-here-spare-my-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/03\/pork-whistle-blower-cries-out-im-here-spare-my-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Pork whistle blower cries out: I\u2019m here; spare my children"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dennis<\/a>
Dennis Cunanan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The latest whistle-blower to come forward in the P10-billion pork barrel scam has one resounding cry: \u201cSpare my children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dennis Cunanan made this appeal on Saturday, after he disclosed that his children were receiving phone calls from unidentified callers, with queries about him and his whereabouts.<\/p>\n

Likewise, he reported the sudden presence of male strangers, loitering in the area of his family\u2019s Quezon City residence.<\/p>\n

Cunanan\u2019s lawyer, Odessa Bernardo, made this appeal on behalf of her client: \u201cMy client says he is no saint. He asks that they deal with him, not his family, particularly his children.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has young children. He is appealing that they be spared,\u201d Bernardo added.<\/p>\n

The lawyer confirmed that Cunanan\u2019s young children have been receiving phone calls from strangers, and that security records of the village in which Cunanan\u2019s family resides showed that unidentified men were seen \u201ccasing\u201d the house of her client.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were unidentified men noted near the house of our client and some of them were seen surreptitiously filming the house,\u201d Bernardo said.<\/p>\n

Bernardo stated that the incidents have been reported and were being \u201camply addressed\u201d by Martin Menes, director of the Department of Justice (DOJ) Witness Protection Program (WPP).<\/p>\n

According to Bernardo, her client, although concerned for his and his family\u2019s safety, is confident that the WPP will be able to assure their protection.<\/p>\n

Bernardo also appealed to the media not to give specific details of the location and appearance of her client\u2019s house, for the sake of his children\u2019s well-being.<\/p>\n

The lawyer further disclosed that there is no truth to the circulating rumours that the house, which she said was owned by Cunanan\u2019s businessman brother, Darius, had been bought for P40 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe confirmed they lived there, but denied the report that the acquisition price was P40 million. It was low because it was acquired years ago,\u201d Bernardo noted.<\/p>\n

She added Cunanan\u2019s brother, Darius is \u201cuntil now is paying the amortization of the bank loan.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawyer committed to release all documents, among these the statement of assets, liabilities and net worth of Cunanan, at the Senate hearing this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest whistle-blower to come forward in the P10-billion pork barrel scam has one resounding cry: \u201cSpare my children.\u201d Dennis …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[707,710,706,249,708,709],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-barrel","tag-cunanan","tag-pork","tag-rewrite","tag-scam","tag-whistleblower","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274","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=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}