Malacañang on Tuesday appealed to almost 100 mayors to help in the ongoing investigation on the multi-billion peso pork barrel scam involving businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles.

Justice Secretary Leila de Lima earlier summoned 97 mayors whose signatures were allegedly forged by Napoles' firm, JLN Corp, so she could get some P900 million from the Malampaya gas fund, supposedly meant to help constituents of these mayors during the wrath of Tropical Storm Ondoy and Typhoon Pepeng in 2009.

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