The two “star” witnesses of Justice Secretary Leila de Lima in the pork barrel scam case are now all wet. It’s time for her to go back to the drawing board after Sen. Jinggoy Estrada punctured the testimonies of former Technology Resource Center Director General Dennis Cunanan and socialite Ruby Chan Tuason.
Now I’ll focus on the issues against Cunanan raised by Senator Jinggoy. Cunanan had claimed he was only renting the house in White Plains owned by his brother. He also said that his brother took a bank loan to buy the house for P12 million in 2007 and the bank approved it after determining that the brother was earning enough. Well, Jinggoy came out last Wednesday with documents purporting to show that the brother, Darius, earned only P104,668.98 in 2007, not enough to buy a house in an exclusive subdivision.
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