{"id":82900,"date":"2016-11-18T00:36:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T05:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=82900"},"modified":"2016-11-18T00:36:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T05:36:02","slug":"sandiganbayan-acquits-ex-makati-mayor-graft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/11\/18\/sandiganbayan-acquits-ex-makati-mayor-graft\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandiganbayan acquits ex-Makati mayor of graft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The Sandiganbayan on Thursday acquitted former Makati City Mayor Elenita Binay of graft in connection with the purchase of allegedly overpriced furniture for the city hall.<\/p>\n<p>The Sandiganbayan Fourth Division also acquitted General Services Department chief Ernesto Aspillaga and city government official Vivian Edna Edurise.<\/p>\n<p>The case arose from the purchase of PHP13.25-million worth of office furniture for the Makati City Hall from December 1999 to February 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The procurement was allegedly overpriced by PHP3.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Sandiganbayan said that the prosecution failed to establish the elements of the graft case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The Sandiganbayan on Thursday acquitted former Makati City Mayor Elenita Binay of graft in connection with the purchase of allegedly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":31880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[12648,3810,3751,343,1594],"class_list":["post-82900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-elenita-binay","tag-graft","tag-makati","tag-philippines","tag-sandiganbayan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82900","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}