Pampanga Gov. Lilia Pineda has defended her husband from accusations of a jueteng bagwoman that he is using the Small Town Lottery (STL) of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) as front of jueteng (an illegal numbers game) operations.

The governor, reacting to bribe custodian-turned whistleblower Sandra Cam, on Friday shot down in a television interview the accusations against her husband-businessman Bong Pineda, telling Cam, “Huwag kang mag-akusa kung wala ka namang ebidensya [Stop accusing people if you have no evidence against them]!”

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