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                    [ArticleID] => 999111
                    [Title] => 'Inequality is Noy's biggest challenge'
                    [Summary] => 

Inequality remains the biggest challenge in the Aquino administration despite economic gains posted in the first half of its term, a sociologist said.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-22 08:51:46 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1422137 [AuthorName] => Jovan Cerda [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/8707/vuhl.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 297668 [Title] => Equitable-PCI VP appears as hostile witness for Erap [Summary] => A bank executive who testified against ousted President Joseph Estrada in the 2000 impeachment trial was presented as a witness for the defense during trial at the Sandiganbayan yesterday.

Testifying as a "hostile" witness, Manuel Curato, Equitable PCI Bank vice president and head of the legal department, said he appeared as a witness before the Senate impeachment trial in 2000 on the orders of bank officials led by Ricardo Romulo, then Equitable PCI Bank chairman, who also headed the Makati Business Club.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097368 [AuthorName] => Mike Frialde [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 183651 [Title] => Estrada lawyers delay Ocampo testimony [Summary] => The scheduled appearance of a prosecution star witness in the plunder trial of deposed President Joseph Estrada was pushed back yesterday after a defense lawyer spent the day cross-examining another witness.

Prosecutors accused the defense of trying to delay the appearance of former Equitable PCIBank senior vice president and trust officer Clarissa Ocampo by asking "repetitious questions."

Ocampo was expected to testify that Estrada owned a secret bank account under the name Jose Velarde which, prosecutors allege, he used for money laundering.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 183246 [Title] => Produce the bank papers, Estrada asks government lawyers [Summary] => A lawyer of deposed President Joseph Estrada has asked the Sandiganbayan to order the Senate legal counsel to present an envelope believed to contain bank documents proving that Estrada illegally amassed wealth during his presidency.

Prosecutors allege Estrada took bribes from illegal gambling rackets, embezzled state funds and profits from insider trading, among others.

He allegedly stashed the proceeds in a secret bank account with Equitable PCI Bank under the name Jose Velarde. They say the account contained P3.2 billion at one point.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 180582 [Title] => Winner of lotto 6/49 surfaces in Butuan [Summary] => BUTUAN CITY — One of the two lotto winners from Butuan City called up the local Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office here yesterday and asked how he could collect the jackpot prize in last Thursday’s 6/49 draw.

PCSO Regional Operations Manager Carlito Kho told The STAR that the winner, who failed to identify himself probably for security reasons, asked how to go to the PCSO Central Office in Manila and present the winning lotto tickets.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 159325 [Title] => Ocampo, Curato kinampihan ng DOJ [Summary] => Ipinagtanggol kahapon ng Department of Justice (DOJ) ang mga testigong sina Clarissa Ocampo at Atty. Manuel Curato na tumatanggap umano ng pinansiyal na suporta mula sa Equitable PCIBank upang tumestigo laban kay dating Pangulong Estrada.

Ayon kay DOJ Undersecretary Manuel Teehankee, ang tinatanggap na financial support nina Ocampo at Curato ay maikukumpara lamang sa ibinibigay na tulong ng DOJ sa mga testigong sumasailalim sa Witness Protection Program (WPP).
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 159159 [Title] => Bank execs were paid for testimony — Erap lawyer [Summary] => Prosecution star witness Clarissa Ocampo, lawyer Manuel Curato and other officers and employees of Equitable-PCI Bank were paid to testify against President Joseph Estrada before the Senate impeachment court in December 2000 and January 2001, a court-appointed counsel of Estrada said yesterday.

Lawyer Prospero Crescini told reporters his allegations are based on three resolutions of the board of directors of Equitable-PCI Bank, dated Dec. 19, 2000, Jan. 16, 2001, and Feb. 20, 2001.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 158534 [Title] => ‘Equitable PCI violated bank secrecy law’ [Summary] => A lawyer of former President Joseph Estrada said officials of Equitable-PCI Bank may have violated the bank secrecy law when they revealed the Jose Velarde accounts in Estrada’s impeachment trial two years ago.

Prospero Crescini, one of the deposed leader’s 13 court-appointed counsels de officio, also maintained that the accounts were owned not by Estrada, but by his friend, Jaime Dichaves.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 158262 [Title] => ‘Estrada is not Jose Velarde’ [Summary] => A court-appointed counsel of Joseph Estrada said yesterday the former president had merely acted as a representative of the real Jose Velarde when he signed at least five documents of the Equitable PCI Bank.

Prospero Crescini, one of the 13 counsels de officio appointed by the Sandiganba-yan special division to represent Estrada in the five criminal cases against him, including the capital offense of plunder, said the defense panel was able to establish yesterday that Estrada is not Jose Velarde.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 158311 [Title] => Erap naka-iskor sa Sandiganbayan [Summary] => Naka-iskor na naman sa Sandiganbayan si dating Pangulong Estrada matapos aminin ng isang saksi para sa prosekusyon na pumirma sa pangalang Jose Velarde si Estrada ngunit hindi bilang principal holder kung hindi bilang isang representante.

Inamin din ni Manuel Curato, first VP at hepe ng legal services division ng Equitable-PCI Bank na ng mag-testify ito sa kasagsagan ng impeachment trial ay kasalukuyang nagkakaroon ng malawakang bank run sa nasabing bangko.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) ) )
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