The MRT mess is a pork scam lite

In the pork barrel scam, one thing stood out. The cohorts of Janet Napoles in both chambers of Congress repeatedly allocated their SAROs to the Napoles NGOs in exchange for hard cash. The first duffel bag of cash emboldened the legislators to tell Napoles, “more, more, more,” and “Ma’am Janet” giddily obliged.

Discretion, adherence to the law and sound judgment were jettisoned through repeated acts of channeling SAROs into the Napoles NGOs. There is a term for such practices under the government procurement and bidding rules. They are called “repeat orders.”  Only, they were of the most fraudulent kind.