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                    [Title] => 5 PEA execs get 90-day suspension for P630-M overprice
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The Philippine Reclamation Authority (formerly Public Estates Authority) has suspended five of its top officials over the alleged overpricing in the construction of the Diosdado Macapagal Blvd. in Pasay City.

[DatePublished] => 2008-08-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 233812 [Title] => Ombudsman asks SC to junk petition on boulevard scandal [Summary] => The Ombudsman has asked the Supreme Court to dismiss a petition filed by officials of the Public Estates Authority (PEA) seeking to stop their prosecution for their alleged involvement in the President Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard (PDBM) anomaly.

In a 36-page comment, Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo said the contract sought for approval by petitioners Frisco San Juan and Manuel Beriña, along with other government officials, was "fatally flawed as it was tainted with numerous patent irregularities."
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 209019 [Title] => Charges readied vs 27 officials in PDMB scam [Summary] => Twenty-seven officials of the Public Estates Authority and the Commission on Audit as well as a private contractor were recommended charged with graft by the Office of the Ombudsman yesterday for allegedly conspiring to overprice the President Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard by P532 million.

In a 60-page resolution, Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo said that although the acts of the officials seemed to be independent of each other, they "were in fact connected" in granting unwarranted benefits to the project’s contractor, JD Legaspi.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 181384 [Title] => Whistle-blower won’t quit PEA [Summary] => They haven’t reached the end of the road yet.

Public Estates Authority board member and director Sulficio Tagud — who blew the whistle on alleged anomalies in the agency — said yesterday he would not quit the PEA as suggested by President Arroyo.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 178506 [Title] => 15 PEA officials, contractor charged with plunder [Summary] => After two weeks of waiting, Sulficio Tagud Jr., the Public Estates Authority director who exposed the alleged anomaly in the construction of a segment of the President Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard (PDMB), and 15 non-government organizations (NGOs) filed plunder charges yesterday against 16 officials of PEA and the Commission on Audit (COA) and a private contractor at the Office of the Ombudsman.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1297981 [AuthorName] => Efren Danao [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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