Hole of Justice: The Fall Guy

Hole of Justice: The Fall Guy: Hole of Justice By Peter G. Jimenea The Fall Guy In the first quarter of 2010, an employee of the Iloilo City Treasurer’s Office (ICTO), M...

Hole of Justice: The Fall Guy

Hole of Justice: The Fall Guy: Hole of Justice By Peter G. Jimenea The Fall Guy In the first quarter of 2010, an employee of the Iloilo City Treasurer’s Office (ICTO), M...

Hole of Justice: The Fall Guy

Hole of Justice: The Fall Guy: Hole of Justice By Peter G. Jimenea The Fall Guy In the first quarter of 2010, an employee of the Iloilo City Treasurer’s Office (ICTO), M...

Hole of Justice: The Fall Guy

Hole of Justice: The Fall Guy: Hole of Justice By Peter G. Jimenea The Fall Guy In the first quarter of 2010, an employee of the Iloilo City Treasurer’s Office (ICTO), M...

The Fall Guy

Hole of Justice

By Peter G. Jimenea

The Fall Guy

In the first quarter of 2010, an employee of the Iloilo City Treasurer’s Office (ICTO), Mr. Christoper Ching, was reported missing with the P2.3M of taxpayers’ money. It is widely believed, however, that he is a mere fall guy.

It was only found out after the city employees complained to COA about their delayed salaries. Thus, the Commission on Audit (COA), decided to visit the ICTO only to discover that another P25M in cash was also missing.

Sad to say Ching doesn’t want to talk anymore. He disappeared leaving us groping in the dark on who is the mastermind of this mess he’s in. On why he refused to stay and clear himself, we have yet to know.

But rumors from the ICTO tell of the amount embezzled by him is not only P2.3M but P27.3M In short, the missing P25M was also slapped to him to save someone’s ass.

The P25M was not missing. It’s just roaming around and changing hands within the parameter of the city hall under the direction of one with close-link to the chief occupant of the kingdom.

Culprits may deny it, but God knows the P25M cash is used to buy the delayed salaries of poor city employees. Those in dire need are forced to sell their pay slip on a discounted rate. True, vultures breed during crisis.

What’s more, the undesirable underling tapped by the mastermind to run her God forbidden business, has also a stink in her closet. She is publicly known in the city as the power pilfering queen.

It was only a misfortune for colluders in ICTO that COA invaded their office without prior notice. The surprise raid of COA resulted to the discovery of that missing P25M in city treasurer’s office.

If we take a careful look at the records of the city government, it can drive an honest city employee to the brink of insanity. It seems that the city hall under the stewardship of a studious mayor has been overrun by crooks!

The deliberately delay of employees salaries was going on for years but the mayor is silent about it. Surely, no man in his right senses would kill the duck that lays golden eggs. Thus, critics say he overtly professed what he covertly undertakes.

We understand why then mayor, now Congressman Trenas was very silent about this lingering mess in employee salaries. He surely knew that in this equation, the suffering of one profits the other!

It was only a misfortune for Ching who acquiesced to the advice of ICTO colluders to run away to save face. Now, his P2.3M shortage has ballooned to P27.3M. This is what he gets for being stupid!

He plays an actor in a role he cannot fully understand. He failed to see that it took years for the boss to master the OPM, the art of making easy-money using other people’s mind. This injustice to taxpayers is a crime that cries to God for vengeance!

Had Ching stayed to tell the truth, he could have been exonerated from this unwanted mess. It’s true, vigilante prospiciunt jura -the law protects him who is watchful of his rights. (Salao vs. Salao, 70 SCRA 65).

Lowly city hall employees are most sorely tempted to steal but don’t. What a shame. To date, we heard no more about Ching and the missing P25M cash. It is written though, qui peccat ebrius luat sobrius – he who offends when drunk shall be punished when sober!

Hole of Justice: The lady is Maria Labo'

Hole of Justice: The lady is Maria Labo': Hole of Justice By Peter Jimenea The lady is Maria Labo’ Mr. Efren Gimeo is a realtor who negotiated the sale of 16 hectares land in San I...

Hole of Justice: The lady is Maria Labo'

Hole of Justice: The lady is Maria Labo': Hole of Justice By Peter Jimenea The lady is Maria Labo’ Mr. Efren Gimeo is a realtor who negotiated the sale of 16 hectares land in San I...

The lady is Maria Labo'

Hole of Justice

By Peter Jimenea

The lady is Maria Labo’

Mr. Efren Gimeo is a realtor who negotiated the sale of 16 hectares land in San Isidro, Jaro, to the City government as relocation site of city squatters evicted from private lot they previously occupied.

In 2006 he selling price of agricultural land in Jaro District is only about P200 per square meter. But the city government under then Mayor Jerry Trenas bought it at P395 per sq. m. or a total of of P63 million.

On why they bought it for a higher price, just guess the rest. According to Mr. Gimeo (now barangay captain of Jalandoni-Lapuz,) P10M of the P63M purchased price went to the wrong pockets. As to who shared the amount of loot, only God knows.

But by that time, the Iloilo City Government is under the stewardship of (now congressman) Mayor Jerry Trenas. The Iloilo City Urpan Poor Ass’n. (ICUPAO) is then headed by Mr. Roy Firmeza. The councilor having a hand in all land acquisition of the city is Councilor Eduardo Penaredondo.

The city residents were shocked by this expose’. During interview of Gimeo by the mainstream media at a hotel, he said to have been forced to call for a press conference as more faces appeared to ask payment for what they never lost.

Even employees of the National Housing Authority (NHA) are linked to this mess. Worse, a councilor with a say in all land deal of the city is said as the one giving colleagues their slice of the pie. This is the earlier claim hinted at!

Surprisingly, despite the so much smoke the crooks keep on insisting that there is no fire. This pesky episode happened because city officials cannot resist the temptation of greed!

This is a sad story for the NHA and the Iloilo City officials concerned. They were implicated in the despicable land acquisition of the San Isidro lot with that P63M appropriated by Sen. Franklin Drilon for the purpose.

Gimeo claimed he only came out upon receiving death threats from a close ally of the senator. This he said, is the reason of going public to expose the anomaly.

Gimeo claimed he was forced to promise a dole-out every time processing of the document stops at an office linked to the land deal. The transaction was already done but the processing is still under way and office in-charge always ask, “how about me?”

Look, the Pavia housing anomaly is not yet over. The demolition of the old city hall building also posed a big question on who pocketed the proceeds. The perimeter boundary ordinance they say created for the benefit of the people is now a disturbing mess because of the unjust terminal charges.

Even the ongoing construction of the new City Hall building is tainted with corruption. The first P350M budget bragged by Mayor Trenas to complete the construction was just an overt professing of a covert undertaking!

Unknown to the city council, he acquired a P125M additional loan for the City Hall construction. In the COA’s audit of his final term, out of P1.3B from General Fund, Special Education Fund and Trust Fund, P821M cannot be reconciled due to lack of documents or having no document at all.

The city government of his domain seems to have been overrun by thieves. His good promises of the future are tainted with bad records of the past.  No wonder, if he is widely perceived as the most despised mayor this city ever had!

By asking a cut in every transaction, except for the honest ones, the crooks finally get the image they deserved through that “lin-ay” (lady) on top of the City Hall building without a name. Look what she has in hands, so I called her “Maria Labo.”  

Hole of Justice: The Checkpoint

Hole of Justice: The Checkpoint: Hole of Justice By Peter G. Jimenea The Police at Checkpoints We are reminded by law that the Bill of Rights is the bedrock of the constit...

The Checkpoint

Hole of Justice

By Peter G. Jimenea

The Police at Checkpoints

We are reminded by law that the Bill of Rights is the bedrock of the constitutional government. If people are stripped naked of their rights as human beings, democracy cannot survive and government becomes meaningless.

Unwanted personal experience at PNP checkpoints has given my arresting police officers the best lesson of their lives as law-enforcers who acted beyond the scope of authority delegated to them. It has a lot to do with the above written reminder.

The policemen manning the checkpoint are from Molo Police Station under the Iloilo City Police Office, or the ICPO. But to protect the integrity of these people who inadvertently overlooked their limitations, we have to skip mentioning names.

The incident happened when my son returning from the smoke-testing-center, was apprehended at the checkpoint for having only a temporary operators’ permit (TOP). The officer-in-charge told him to look for somebody with driver’s license to get his impounded motor vehicle.

When informed, I went to the checkpoint to get the vehicle per police instruction. Out there a police officer asked for my driver’s license. But after I presented it, the officer-in-charge, the chief inspector, ordered him to issue me a traffic-violation ticket.

Under duress, they confiscated my driver’s license and issued a TOP. What compounded the problem is the written violation on the TOP which says “Disregarding.” The next day, I paid P200 to the cashier but retained the xerox copy of my TOP with note “payment under protest.”

This is not what we think police business is all about. They should know that “extreme enforcement of law may lead to injustice.” (Berico vs. CA, 225 SCRA 562). Yet, they deliberately stepped over-the-line of pardonable behavior to make me pay for my son’s fault when I can pay the fine for my son’s violation if they said so. Maybe a lesson No. 1.

In the evening, I called up Molo Police Station and requested the desk officer if I can talk to the police chief inspector in-charge of that checkpoint. When we were both in line, I told him in soft voice that what he did should not be repeated as it is wrong.

This is his arrogant reply; “We even spared your son from trouble for that traffic violation. Okay, do what you want we are ready to face you in Court.” He failed to understand that “gross negligence is equivalent to malice or intentional wrong. (Balatbat vs, CA, 261 SCRA 128). That’s lesson No. 2.

To make the story short, I filed the case with the National Police Commission (NAPOLCOM). Soon after, policemen friends requested me to withdraw the case. I refused, until that young police officer who issued the TOP went to my house and said he is yet to complete his two months before becoming a full pledge policeman.

I told him (out of pittance) to bring his superior, the tiger-look officer to my lawyer (who is my co-host in TV program Atty. Pet Melliza) who will do the dropping of their case. Before he left, I advice him to study more on the Plain View Doctrine, Warrantless Arrest and Human Rights.

This story explains why the Bill of Rights contained in ART. III of the Constitution occupies a position of primacy to the fundamental law way above the articles on government powers. Litigation is not a game of technicalities, it deserves scant consideration by the Court and in this case, the advantage is mine.

PNP officers should know that the Court values liberty and will always insist on the observance of basic Constitutional Rights as a condition sine qua non against the awesome investigative and prosecutorial powers of the government. After learning his lessons, the tiger became a cat!

Hole of Justice: Res Clamat Domino

Hole of Justice: Res Clamat Domino: Hole of Justice by Peter G. Jimenea Res clamat domino Former AFP Controller Carlos Garcia admitted to have acquired ill-gotten wealth of a...

Res Clamat Domino

Hole of Justice

by Peter G. Jimenea

Res clamat domino

Former AFP Controller Carlos Garcia admitted to have acquired ill-gotten wealth of about P135M. He surrendered these properties to the Philippine government hoping to lessen his plunder case.

The P135M ill-gotten wealth of Gen. Garcia is a cheap shot compared to the Iloilo City government P137M housing project, the construction of 413 houses for poor City Hall employees. It started in 2001 and ended in 2009 without a unit completed.

Omb. Conchita Carpio Morales indicted Garcia based on admission of that ill-gotten wealth. But Omb. Merceditas Gutierrez slept over the Iloilo City failed project despite the vital documents submitted and the rusting physical evidence on-site.

While Omb. Morales wasted no time to petition the Sandiganbayan to hold a decision on the approval of that Plea Bargain Agreement entered into by Garcia with then Omb Gutierrez, the latter allowed the Iloilo City housing scam to sleep for six long years at her office.

Omb. Gutierrez barred the Solicitor General from intervening in behalf of the AFP but her deputy said to be a friend of mayor (now congressman) Jerry Trenas played a big role in delaying the resolution of the case. This is what the earlier claim hinted at!

The Resolution was already resolved on May 9, 2005 and recommended for approval by Deputy Omb for the Visayas Primo Miro on May 23, 2005. On why Overall Deputy Omb. Orlando Casimiro signed only the 110 pages Consolidated Resolution five years later, only God knows.

Under the administration of former Mayor Mansueto Malabor, a P23M discrepancy was noted by Overall Deputy Omb. Casimiro. But he overlooked the P90M wastage of taxpayers’ money under Mayor Trenas stewardship of the city.

Yet, Mayor Trenas get-off the hook easily than Malabor does. The indictment creates a misperception that the inclusion of one excludes the other and this is done in exchange for – you know what!

This is not what we think Casimiro’s business is all about. He should know that justice delayed is justice denied. Worse, by applying the selective approach of prosecution, he has now to tolerate brave words to save face!

Going back to the “now plunder case” of Garcia, the 30-day petition of Omb. Morales to the Sandiganbayan re its decision on the Plea Bargain Agreement dated August 23, 2011, has expired last Friday.

But that plunder case transfigured the history of Al Capone’s conviction. Gen. Garcia was indicted by Omb. Morales on Friday afternoon, few minutes before the closing of the office hours and the expiration of her petition with the Sandiganbayan.

In the case of Al Capone, the wise trial judge dissolved the jury comprised of Capone’s stooges and replaced them with his own at the last hour. So, Capone was convicted not of any other crime but tax evasion.

What happened to Capone and Gen. Garcia is history repeats itself.  There is no wise or clever underworld characters who can escape the wrath of God. The guilty will soon be judged. Yes, “A thing clamors for its owner, so as the good case for the Court” as in Latin…… see the title!

Hole of Justice: Dos Bastos

Hole of Justice: Dos Bastos: Hole of Justice By Peter G. Jimenea The Dos Bastos By peeping and snipping on different doors at the Iloilo Provincial Capitol building (w...

Hole of Justice: Dos Bastos

Hole of Justice: Dos Bastos: Hole of Justice By Peter G. Jimenea The Dos Bastos By peeping and snipping on different doors at the Iloilo Provincial Capitol building (w...

Dos Bastos

Hole of Justice

By Peter G. Jimenea

The Dos Bastos

By peeping and snipping on different doors at the Iloilo Provincial Capitol building (which I used to call a Kingdom by the River), an about to explode temperament is easily noticed among disgusted employees for reason they have yet to disclose.

It surprised me knowing that Gov. Arthur Defensor is doing everything to preserve the “Mr. Clean” title labeled of him by supporters and followers. But if there is smoke, there is fire and I tend to believe the governor has already an idea about this mess in some Capitol offices.

Good that the disdain of employees on how the uniform fund should be used was immediately quelled when he announced during the flag ceremony that the money for the purpose should be given directly to the employees.

Still, there are some sorts of discontentment easily glean from employees of the provincial government, Worse, as I noticed, the trend of discontentment is growing. Perhaps, sooner or later this writer will be able to discover the cause of discernment.

The atmosphere of “Reforma kag Pagbag-o” is still in the air inside the Capitol building. Gov. Defensor is doing everything possible to clean up the ass of the Kingdom by the River. But wise men say, Rome was not built in one day. So take your time gob.

One of the latest good news I read in Facebook is the supplies of medicine the province has provided to a hospital in Dumangas, Iloilo. This is something to crow about because flu and dengue are once again threatening our people in the province.

This deep concern of the governor to health and welfare of poor constituents is commendable. As noted, this is different from the previous administration with think-tanks who destroyed the image of their boss. Section II, Art. VIII of the 1987 Constitution provides:

” The State shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to health development which shall endeavor to make essential goods, health and other social services available to all people at affordable cost. There shall be priority for the needs of the underprivileged, sick, elderly, disabled, women and children. The State shall endeavor to provide free medical care to paupers.”

But the bright heads in the administration of former Gov. Niel Tupas, submitted a plan to convert the 12 provincial hospitals in Iloilo into profit-oriented establishments. The think-tanks even called their soon to be converted hospitals “economic enterprises.”

They failed to understand what public service means. In fact, their purchases of medical equipments on the premise of improving hospital services, as it turned out, not good for hospital administrators who refused to accept the equipment when delivered.

The problem with former Gov. Tupas was his too much trust on the undesirable underlings he had been tapping. Thus, these sidekicks were emboldened to purchase that overpriced P1.2M autoclave sterilizing machine without their boss getting wind of it.

Maybe the governor sees in them Midas, the man who turns into gold anything he touches. It was only a misfortune for Gov. Tupas that they have a Midas touch-in-reverse. All their purchases did not turn into gold but smack for the administration of the governor.

This is not what we think the business of sidekicks is all about. Sad to say, as they cannot resist greed, it was eventually the governor who received the spanking that they deserved.  Respondeat superior – the act of the agent within the scope of his authority is the act of the principal so, let the one above reply.

Surprisingly, the sidekicks get-off the hook easily than Tupas does. Rumor mills are grinding overnight that if Gov. Tupas has Trio Los Bobos, King Arthur, has “Dos Bastos.” I hope to have made your day in this column folks. You ask for it, not me and Dirty Harry who ask others to make our day!

Hole of Justice: Dark side of the law

Hole of Justice: Dark side of the law: Hole of Justice By Peter G. Jimenea The dark side of the law Wearing crash-helmet for motorcycle riders was implemented by law to protect ...

Dark side of the law

Hole of Justice

By Peter G. Jimenea

The dark side of the law

Wearing crash-helmet for motorcycle riders was implemented by law to protect the drivers and back-riding passengers. But as it turned out, the helmet that had irate some motorcycle riders was in part, not also good for the police.

Over the months that follow, underworld characters, especially guns-for-hire, have developed the smooth mastery of killing for a fee by using motorcycles and wearing crash helmets to cover their faces.

In highly urbanized cities, traffic congestions is an eyesore and no emboldened motorcycle driver wearing crash-helmet would over-speed in busy city streets unless he transfers on the sidewalks to get out of the mess he’s in.

What’s more, with use of cellular phones, motorcycle-riding killers can easily evade PNP checkpoints. Their advance look-outs sent ahead to monitor the movements of the police can be of great help to carry-out the crime.

Wearing crash-helmet actually helps but not so much in busy streets where traffic flow is in turtle pace. It only adds burden to the driver when the heat of the day is beyond normal temperature. It also distorts his sense of hearing on sirens of following cars.

Wearing crash-helmet is helpful to motorcycle riders going a long-distant route outside the city  In fact, authorities have cited persuasive reasons why they must wear it due to rampant reports of road accidents involving motorcycles.

However, there are counter-arguments against the order. The traffic aides of the local government units, enforcers of the land transportation office and the PNP must also reconsider the good views they all share.

Guns-for-hire is now a lucrative business for criminals as witnesses are becoming scarce. If we study the PNP’s solution on how to curb this style of killing, we can easily glean their lame-duck feeling in solving this crime.

The same is true with RA 7610 better known as the Anti-Child Abuse Law. Syndicates are reported to have been using minors to carry out their illegal activities knowing these minors cannot be prosecuted or imprisoned being protected by Juvenile Protection Laws.

Criminals are also using young children to open the gates, doors or windows of a house they want to ransack. If ever apprehended, they are just turned over to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) for custody, nothing more.

But once these young kids returned home, the peace of the community is again bothered as residents have no guarantee these kids have reformed and will not go back to their dirty jobs again.

School officials are in dilemma how to discipline young students doing wrongful acts inside the campus. They cannot impose discipline for fear the law protecting these kids might be used against them by tolerant-parents.

The same is true with our law enforcers. Their mere reprimanding of these kids if reported to higher authorities could put them in hot water. Thus, lot of petty crimes have been committed by emboldened kids today.

The dark side of this high-risk law virtually hampers the smooth operation of peace and order in the community. Thus, the many things that our school authorities and the PNP could have done were set-aside and left undone.

By ruling-out discipline instead of using it as a measure to obviate future consequences is designing our moral downfall. Crime of minors neither stopped from coming in nor getting out of the police and DSWD offices due to parental neglect and lack of school discipline.

I am compelled to comment on the required wearing of crash-helmet in the city as the reported atrocities of guns-for-hire and other high profile criminals using motorcycles are now getting out of control.

This is also true with the unfriendly Anti Child Abuse Law that can put the integrity of school-authorities and law enforcers in peril. Lawmakers must now amend this law as it endangers morality to become - the last casualty!

Hole of Justice

by Peter G. Jimenea

God knows, Judas pay!

The P137M Iloilo City Housing Project (ICHP) scam whcich had racked-up volumes of criticisms that can sink a Super Ferry vessel, has finally got its contemptuous result from the office of the Overall Deputy Ombudsman.

For almost seven years, the scam folder containing documented evidence has slept in Monalisa’s… este resigned Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez’ office. Now it seems a good case for the court but look how a selective prosecution works. It transfigures a public official who overtly professed what he covertly undertake

Result of the investigation cited the failure of the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) and that of then Mayor Mansueto Malabor to observe the protocol in awarding the P125M housing project to the contractor Ace Builders Enterprise (ABE) of Mr,. Alex Trinidad.

The defects was found in the releases of P5,824,016.98 and P17,697,050.95 immediately after the project was awarded. Worse is awarding the P125M project to the contractor whose capital investment was two (P2M) million as reflected in his business permit secured only on July 3, 2001.

But after turning-over the project to Mayor Jerry Trenas (now a congressman), the cost has ballooned to P137,787,499.56. The sudden transfer of the P125 million loan obligation from the Philippine National Bank to the Philippine Veterans Bank incurred a P12M for documentation alone.

Mayor Trenas continued paying the contractor for the abandoned project to the tune of over P64M. There are 413 houses to be constructed as stipulated in the contract but not a unit was completed. Worse, the city continued paying the P17,000 daily interest including holidays costing the city another P24M plus in this failed project.

But in its August 2011 Consolidated Resolution, Overall Deputy Ombudsman Orlando Casimiro, indicted only former Mayor Mansueto Malabor and eight others including the contractor Alex Trinidad. The case stemmed from the Violation of Section 3(e) of RA 3019 known as the Anti Graft and Corrupt Practices Act.

The amount involved in this mess under the administration of former Mayor Malabor was only P23M. But under Mayor Trenas’ stewardship of the city, he spent over P67M to the contractor and P24M for bank interest despite the project slippage.

Yet, Mayor Trenas and company get-off the hook easily than Malabor does. Casimiro required further investigation on their involvement in this case. What a favor! This creates an impression without affirming the perception that the indictment of Malabor and exoneration of Trenas are in exchange for – you know what!

This is not what we think Casimiro’s business is all about. The ICHP has slept at the Ombudsman’s office for over six years.  A lawyer with smooth mastery of law, he can easily see the gravity of the offense each respondent had committed. He should also know that justice delayed is justice denied!

Perhaps, resigned Deputy Ombudsman Mark Jalandoni from Jaro District, Iloilo City, could share to us some idea on why this ICHP scam has slept for over six years at the Ombudsman’s office. For those who knew them, he and Trenas are good friends. This is what the earlier claim hinted at.

The Consolidated Resolution was resolved on May 9, 2005 yet, and recommended for approval by Deputy Ombudsman for the Visayas Primo Miro on May 23, 2005. Sad to say, it only lie there until Monalisa… ehe, Ombudsman Gutierrez was forced to resign.

On August 20, 2010, Casimiro, hurriedly signed the 110 pages Consolidated Resolution in just a day, acting like a passenger catching the last plane out. What compelled him for that fast action, only God knows. But why further investigation for Mayor Trenas et al?

But the lapse of five years for a case-folder needing only his signature, binds him to the official responsibility and accountability attendant thereto. He should know that Culpa lata dolo a equiparatur – gross negligence is equivalent to malice or intentional wrong. (Balatbat vs,. CA 261 SCRA 128).

Deliberate or not, Casimiro’s late action on the ICHP case reinforced the widespread public belief that he is the most despised Deputy of Monalisa this country ever had. I hope to have made your day with the spanking you deserved for being stupid!

Hole of Justice
by Peter G. Jimenea



(Warlords' Chronicle of Crime)
Frankie "The Voice" Sinatra



I have already wrote the link of US Pres. John F. Kennedy (JFK) and FBI Director J.Edgar Hoover with the Mafia. I believe 1975 is not yet too far to look back to the story of these popular people and their absurd messy-legacy.



As told, it was Attorney-General Robert "Bobby" Kennedy, brother of JFK, who pressured Hoover to turn the FBI heat on organized crime. it is widely believed in the underworld that this ignited the ire of the bosse on why JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.



Talking about the popular figures in the Mafia organization, one of them was the Hollywood actor and singer Frank Sinatra, better known to friends as "The Voice." He was also instrumental in the presidential election victory of JFK in gangland areas.



Chicago's Mafia boss Sam "Momo" Gianciana who replaced Al Capone was among the close-friends of Sinatra in the organized crime. Gianciana has worked for Capone in 1920s and was imprisoned for offences from bootlegging and burglary.



His post-war rise to Chicago gangland supremacy paved the way for his straight contacts. Sinatra introduced him to Hollywood starlets and enlisted his support in the presidential election of JFK. Like what happened in the Philippines, the Mafia doctored the result in Cook County, Illinois, swinging the photo-finished election from Richard Nixon to JFK.



Under Pres. Kennedy's presidency, the Gianciana-Mafia connection with the administration has expanded. After the "Bay of Pigs" fiasco (failed invasion of Cuba), the CIA talked to John Rosseli and Gianciana about rubbing out Fidel Castro..



The Mafia also longed to regain their Havana gambling and prostitution interest but they did not bite the plan. They doubt these CIA agents as nuts for only professional spies could take seriously that exploding fountain pens and potions to pull out Castro's beard.



Gianciana also secretly shared JFK mistress, lovely Judith Campbell, who bounced between the two men's bed without the president getting wind of it. But FBI Dir. Hoover warned JFK that his affair with Campbell and his connection with Gianciana are about to explode.



Gianciana resented the move of the FBI director. As the heat turned on by JFK's Attorney-General brother Bobby to organized crime was gaining ground, the Mafia boss who believed that he has the administration in his pocket, realized he was wrong. He broke ties with Sinatra and Kennedy.



Feeling the FBI's zeroing-in on him, he decided to tell the Senate Investigating Committee about all the shenanigans. But he never did it. Before his scheduled appearance at the Senate, he was shot dead by an intruder at his home in Oak Park.



Now he will never do so. He forgot that in underworld business there is double-cross, betrayal, jealousy, swindling and other messy things of the wise and clever. Well, in the end, the CIA publicly and the Mafia privately, both pleaded complete innocence of his murder.



In the case of Frankie "The Voice" Sinatra, until his death, he never look eye to eye with Mario Puzzo, the Mafiosi writer who exposed his intimate relationship with the president's wife, Nancy Reagan. It is all about his dropping-by at the White House everytime Pres. Ronald Reagan was out on official tour of duty. On why, just guess the rest!

Hole of Justice
by Peter G. Jimenea



How Hong Kong became a British colony



The rise and fall of the Western Empires has shaped the narcotics traffic in Asia. In 1500s, opium abused and narcotics trafficking were unknown until Portuguese warships arrived into the very web of Asian life.



Before the European powers arrived, China and other Asian states were isolationist empires. Less than a decade after Christopher Columbus discovered America, Portuguese explorers has already reached China with import opium from India.



In 1800s, European powers financed their colonial ambition through opium trade. The British led the drive to mass merchandise opium and became the first Western government to engage in the trafficking of narcotics despite the moral objection of its people.



As the Indian opium shipments increased, so is the number of Chinese addicts. The Emperor banned opium as it is considered a desecration of the body and violation of Confusian philosophy being taught by the Chinese teachers.



The British captains, however, ignored the imperial bans and sailed into Chinese ports with more opium shipments. The British opium shipment to China zoomed from 200 tons in the year 1800 to ten times more, 2000 tons in 1840.



Although the C'hing dynasty was politically weak and riddled with corruption, it resented being exploited by the British colonial aspiration and tried to stop the drug. The Chinese seized and destroyed $6M worth of opium and arrested some British traders at the port.



The traders were exiled in the frozen tundra of Central Asia and one was crucified on the Canton docks to publicly show their resentment against the use of opium. The frustration extended to the Far Eastern Boston Tea Party as Cantonese officials dumped several tons of British opium into the sea.



Angered by the Chinese act, British warships responded by shelling the coastline and a full scale war erupted from 1840 to 1856. The Chinese junks and rusted cannons were no match against the modern and powerful British fleet that the war resulted in total British victory.



Dubbed "the Opium Wars" by the Chinese, they became powerless to stop Britain's drug trade and even charged with a high cost of war damaged. Unable to pay the onerous reparations, China ceded Hong kong to British control on the condition that it will be returned to them after a lapse of time which prescribed on July 1997.



After the "Opium Wars" the British increased their opium trafficking. By 1880, 6,500 tons of opium annually were instrumental in creating 100 million smokers and 15 million addicts. Britain has made opium the world's largest cash commodity.



The Chinese government finally tolerated domestic opium cultivation in two provinces. By 1900, it was turning a blind eye to an annual yield of 20,000 tons. Addiction spread from China to Southeast Asia, that in 1906, the London House of Commons pronounced Britain's involvement immoral.



Sad to say, before Hong kong was returned to Mainland China in July 1997, the 14K, the dominant Triad gang in the colony immediately migrated to the West and other neighboring countries acting like passengers catching the last plane out. On what misfortune, they brought with them their wares!



In Mainland China they have a very simple solution to drug problem, a bullet in the head done in public. Western powers addicted millions of Chinese people and dragged us into this mess due to their colonial aspiration. Well at least, they get the dose of their own medicine, the Triads are now returning the favor to the West with a vengeance!

Hole of Justice
by Peter G. Jimenea



(Warlords' Chronicle of Crime)
The "Gay" Puppet



He is an architect of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a powerful office of expert law enforcers of the government tasked to deal with criminal syndicates and other organized crime. But among underworld characters he is known as "Proud Mary."



As head of the bureau, he is feared especially on the widespread belief that he had an African blood. Unfortunately, crime syndicate bosses knew that he is a homosexual often seen in sex parties at private hotel room where his bulldog feature hid in wig and dresses.



Worse, he was fully identified by many to be in the pocket of a crime boss who acquired picture of him enjoying sex with a man in his late thirties. They used it to force this very proud-brutal man to hands-off on organized crime. He is FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover



The rumor that Hoover was controlled by a syndicate makes sense. His failure to stop the "Crime Commission's" nationwide rackets has raised suspicion the Bureau would fail in handling it as the director resorted in running after bank-robbers in the Mid-West.



British investigative writer Anthony Summers' revelation about Hoover tells of a steady drip of information that linked the Mafia to US Pres. John F. Kennedy's assassination. The informants claim that the Mafia had also a damaging evidence of JFK's promiscuous sex life.



It was not clear on why the Mafia wants to destroy the president they have a bite-on. But Atty.-General Bobby Kennedy has a story that can tell all. He once forced Hoover to turn the FBI on the Mafia in a bid to win back public trust.



The attorney-general ignored the threats on his life, any price would be worth paying just to get back Hoover's neutrality. But as the Mafia associates had always said, the best way to disarm Bobby Kennedy is to kill his president brother - Jack.



It was through Bobby on why the FBI has won back the public trust. The experienced officers of the bureau has rocked the Mafia organization state by state. Its law enforcers has gone from strength to strength in combatting organized crime after Hoover's death.



The FBI's crime-busting operation resulted to the conviction of godfather John Gotti in 1992. As New York's "capo di tutti capi" (boss of the bosses) his conviction is as important as that of Don Vito Genovese, a former "capo di tutti" betrayed by Lansky and Frank Costello on approval of another ambitious mob "Lucky" Luciano.



In the underworld business, there is always jealousy, betrayal, double-cross, swindling and many other mess of underworld characters. As the story goes, the treacherous Luciano was also convicted later by Tom Dewey's effective crime-busting operation.



Summers implies there was carrot as well a stick for Hoover, a compulsive gambler following the horses being near as he came into a cultural life. It is said that "Prime Minister of Crime" Frank Costello paid him off by providing tips on fixed races, accepting his bet, but never demand payment when Hoover lost.



They say gays are more brutal and violent when angered compared to real men. It's true as the past record speaks of a despot ruler of a government office whose whims and caprices forced him to yield into becoming a Mafia puppet.



But whatever else is remembered of him, FBI Dir. Hoover has left his mark in history as the "Proud Mary" of the bureau, a homosexual with a bulldog feature and most of all, an evil smelling "gay" of his time.

Hole of Justice
by Peter G. Jimenea



(Warlords' Chronicle of Crime)

The Rise and Fall of Scarface



He has three heavy scars on the left jaw inflicted by a teenage guy in a quarrel over a girl and hates this nickname dubbed on him by the press. His criminal career started in his native Brooklyn when he joined a teenage gang managed by an adult mob named Johnny "The Brain" Torrio.



Torrio brought him to Chicago, considered a peaceful city of criminal organization that eventually became a byword for the worst excesses of gangland warfare. During the Prohibition in the sale of alcoholic beverages, the enterprise of Torrio's uncle being managed by him, collapsed.



But it did not stop him from operation of prostitution houses, gambling dens and the production of alcoholic beverages. During the "Beer Wars" he made Scarface his business partner. This propelled the latter to earn the title "Public Enemy No. One." Scarface is Al Capone.



In 1924, Dion O' Bannion, head of the North Side Irish mob, double crossed Torrio and Capone. He sold them his brewery and announced his retirement. On the night of the transfer, police swooped down and closed the brewery.



Capone learned that O'Bannion deliberately arranged the fiasco and still, continued doing business. O'Bannion was advised to make peace with Scarface but the Irishman merely responded; "Oh, to hell with the Sicilian." For that as widely believed in the underworld, he signed his death warrant.



Later, two of Capone's hit men Albert Anselmi and John Scalise assassinated O'Bannion in the back room of his own florist shop. O'Bannion's friend, a certain Hymie Weiss then commanded the gang. Weis and his mob planned to retaliate by killing Capone and Torrio.



In 1925, Torrio was shot as he stepped out of his car. He survived but immediately went back to Italy. Capone now "The Big Man" headed the biggest mob in Chicago on his own. The Weiss gang tried a new technique by George "Bugs" Moran, cruising slowly past Capone's car in their own limousine and rocked it with machine pistol and shotgun fire.



His driver died but Capone survived. In 1926 a convoy of eleven cars drove past Capone headquarters at Hawthorne Inn in Cicero, poured over 1,000 bullets from machine guns. Only one gangster and a woman passerby died but Capone again survived.



A month later, his men eliminated Weiss from the windows of two rented rooms across the latter's doorway. War raged on with Moran now leading the Northsiders. They didn't have the faintest idea that Capone's men have already hatched the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" plan.



Disguised as raiding police officers, Capone's mob wiped out five of Moran's men, a mechanic and an optometrist who just like to hang out with crooks in their garage. Although Moran threatened a fearful revenge, the brutal slaying ended his effectiveness.



Capone's worst atrocity was seen in the killing of his own men John Scalise and Albert Anselmi after he learned of their treacherously planned to betray him. He gave them superb banquet and proposed a loving toast. But when the meal was over, he had their arms pinned and seizing a baseball bat, he broke every bone in their bodies he can reached.



He then threw his guns on the mayoral election of Republican "Big Bill" Thompson, who eventually let the mobsters give order to the City Hall. But in 1928, Capone had overplayed their electioneering with threats, intimidation and bomb-throwing. The electors revolted. There was twice the normal turn-out of voters and the Republicans were badly routed.



From 1930, Capone was targetted by a team of Inland Revenue agents who disregarded his no-income claim to evade payments totalling millions. They attempted to disrupt the course of justice by putting their own selected people in the jury.



But Federal Judge Wilkerson is wise if not clever. He replaced the jurymen with his own at the last minute. Capone was finally convicted of tax evasion. Slapped with eleven years imprisonment and payment of $80,000 in fines and cost, Capone got the heaviest ever handed down for tax offender.



Secured in Alcatraz prison, Capone's reign in Chicago finally ended. When he was discharged from prison later, Capone is said to have died after acquiring a sexually transmitted disease.

Hole of Justice: The deputies

Hole of Justice: The deputies: Hole of Justice by Peter G. Jimenea Despicable Deputies The anomaly in the Iloilo City Housing Project that has consumed the city for year...

The deputies

Hole of Justice

by Peter G. Jimenea

Despicable Deputies

The anomaly in the Iloilo City Housing Project that has consumed the city for years, as it turned out, seems not good for the Overall Deputy Ombudsman Orlando Casimiro.

On why, only God knows. But the P125M project for the construction of 413 houses of lowly City Hall employees that started in 2001, has ended in 2009 without a unit completed.

The bidding and awarding of the said project construction was made during the incumbency of Mayor Mansueto Malabor in 2000 but was only implemented the following year under Mayor now Cong. Jerry Trenas.

From the start, there were releases of funds prior to the construction of the houses. Worse, after the new administration took over, crooks started also to pounce on city coffers for every chance they get.

The P125M loan of the city government with the Philippine National Bank (PNB) was suddenly transferred to Philippine Veterans Bank (PVB) incurring a whooping P12M for documentation alone. On why this cost much, Cong. Trenas has yet to disclose.

But the P12M has increased the burden of the taxpayers from P125M to P137M. Worse, Ace Builders Enterprises (ABE) the contractor, has abandoned the project and ran away with over P64M of the people’s money as Trenas continued paying the bill despite the failed project.

In 2004, a case against Mayor Trenas and underlings was filed with the Office of the Ombudsman. Yet, until the first quarter of 2011, nothing has been heard about the case.

There is a widespread public belief the resigned Deputy Ombudsman Mark Jalandoni is a friend of Trenas and has something to do with the sleeping of his case at the Ombudsman’s Office.

Worse, on August 2011, a Consolidated Resolution which is based on the investigation of the case already done in 2005 was immediately signed by Overall Deputy Ombudsman Casimiro and was acting like a passenger catching the last plane out!

He indicted Mayor Malabor and group but surprisingly spared former mayor now Cong. Trenas and company. It is giving the congressman an extension of time for further investigation of their involvement in the case.

Wow! Casimiro was already in the pot but jumps into the fire. High school students who may have read the complaint surely understand the clear and understandable language written therein.

Casimiro stepped over the line of pardonable behavior. His act has created an impression without affirming the perception that the time extension given by him to Cong. Trenas and company is in exchange for you….. know what!

Why call for another shot to effect a desire already done by Director Virginia Palanca Santiago seven years ago? Is this another fishing expedition hoping for a bigger catch? Casimiro should know that it is only for him and the Trenas’ group that what he did was good!

For brilliant lawyers with smooth mastery of law, this extended time for further investigation of the housing mess is absurdity. Now, did stooges in the Ombudsman Iloilo office start the investigation of this case? If none, evil, this can only be!

Hole of Justice: Monalisa

Hole of Justice: Monalisa: Hole of Justice by Peter G. Jimenea The Curse of Monalisa Never has there been officials so irresolute and derelict in the performance of t...

Monalisa

Hole of Justice

by Peter G. Jimenea

The Curse of Monalisa

Never has there been officials so irresolute and derelict in the performance of their  duties and responsibilities than the two deputies of "forced-to-resigned" Ombudsman Monalisa, ehe, este Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez.

Look, the failed Iloilo City Housing Project scam filed with their office and has consumed the city for years, seems not good for the Sandigan. The 413 houses costing P125M for city employees started in 2001, but ended in 2009 without a unit completed.

Worse, the P125 million loan of the city government with the Philippine National Bank (PNB) was transferred to the account of the Philippine Veterans Bank (PVB), a month after the construction started. On why, nobody knows, but documentation alone was a whooping - P12M.

The anomalous travel cost of P12M in a few meters distance from PNB to the PVB is believed done by officials who cannot resist the temptation of greed. The crooks who always ask compensation for what they never lost. Ex pudoratus - shameless!

As to who shared the amount of the loot, only God knows. But the P12M has increased the burden of the taxpayers from P125M to P137M. Worse, the contractor abandoned the failed project and ran away with over P64M in his pocket. What is somewhat missing in the empty lives of these people is to die with dignity!

Thus, in 2004, a case was filed at the Office of then Ombudsman Monalisa este, Gutierrez. But the folder changed hands only from one deputy to another without any result. Except for the honest ones, these deputies are worms in-aid of corruption to government parasites sucking the taxpayers' blood.

It was resolved by Graft Investigation and Prosecution Officer I, Pio Dargante on May 9, 2005. The review was done by Dir. Edgardo Canton and the recommending approval was made by then Deputy Ombudsman for the Visayas Primo Miro, on May 23, 2005.

Surprisingly, it took five (5) years for Overall Deputy Ombudsman Orlando Casimiro to approve the Consolidated Resolution which issuance bore the handwritten date of August 20, 2010. This creates an impression without affirming the perception that the delay was done in exchange for - you know what!  

It gives us an erroneous impression of ODO Casimiro that he is a worm who stepped over-the-line of pardonable behavior because of greed. Lowly employees at the Ombudsman's office are most sorely tempted to steal but don't, my goodness!

So first to resign from his post was Deputy Ombudsman, Mark Jalandoni. Critics say the reason is his fear from the charges being prepared against him by the new administration. Some say he overtly professed what he covertly undertake and that badly destroyed the image of his office. 

Now here comes another worm, ehe, este deputy with less-working-brain. Deliberate or not, his neglect to attend on this Iloilo City Housing Project anomaly made us believe he is yet to know his official accountability and responsibility attendant thereto!

He should know that the P137M is your money, my money, our money or the taxpayers money. On why he ignored the consequences of his inaction, he has yet to say. But he should know further, that it is only for him and the emboldened Iloilo City Hall crooks that what he did was good!

This reminds me of Monalisa when confronted at the House Committee on Justice. She was murmuring crass words nobody understands. No wonder; "Court is guided by jurisprudence borne from experience that perfect testimonies cannot be expected from imperfect senses!" (Pp vs. Sahagun, 274 SCRA 208).

An adage says; qui peccat ebrius luat sobrius - he who offends when drunk shall be punished when sober. So what happened to their lady boss? She hurriedly stepped down badly beaten by her looks. She should have known that "the abuse of right is the greatest possible wrong." (Arlegui vs. CA, 378 SCRA 322)  

Look, despite the long-delay to resolve the case, ODO Casimiro still give an extension for further investigation on the involvement of other respondents in this mess. Now, as we see it, Cong. Jerry Trenas has easily got off the hook than former Mayor Mansueto Malabor does. What a heck!

The stooges of Monalisa should know that what is involved here is P137M of taxpayers' money and the unrealized dream of the poor city employees to own a house. The project failed because emboldened crooks pounce on city coffers for every chance they get. This injustice is a crime that cries to God for vengeance!

When Mark Jalandoni stepped down, few good and many bad deputies are left behind. So let's be vigilant as we still have no guarantee that when ODO Casimiro gets out someday, all the lazy worms of Monalisa will also go away!

Well, I hope to have made your day in this column. You ask for it. Now you get the spanking you deserved for being stupid.  If I am to judge you in this Iloilo City Housing Project mess, mine is a very simple solution - a bullet in the head done in public!