THE Senate leadership will not expel Sen. Joel Villanueva despite an order issued by the Office of the Ombudsman dismissing the former head of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority.

Villanueva was charged with graft, malversation, and falsification of public documents in connection with the alleged misuse of P10 million of his pork barrel allocation in 2008.

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