A pork scam inquiry half done and begging for closure

I have known Armand Padilla for a very long time. More than a decade ago, he asked me to write a book on Casto Alejandrino, the patrician and Arayat, Pampanga, mayor who gave up everything to join the Hukbalahaps, then became the Number 2 man in the movement. Armand said I would view the movement with sympathy as my parents were foot soldiers in the Huk movement and fought fiercely against the Japanese.

I told Armand I can’t distinguish between past and present tenses and that I did not have a long view of history, which was required to put the heroic work of Casto in the proper context. I asked the late former Con-Con delegate and book author Manny Martinez to write the book on Casto Alejandrino. Manny finished the book, which, unfortunately did not see print.