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Judging the Chief Justice
At its climax, the trial of Renato Coronasets a high standard in publicaccountability and transparencyBy Atty. John Carlo Gil M. Sadian
STRATEGY POINTS
The Chief Justice's testimony focused theSenate on one issue: Should he be removed fornot declaring $2.4 million in deposits?
Corona's appearance before the nation and hisa new standard for accountability
The Senate verdict will have immense impact onthe Judiciary, our constitutional democracy, and
the political landscape
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Dollars on center stage.
see page 8
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Corona maintains his conscience is
clear.
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charges
see page 12)
Family feud over real estate. As a
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Only four dollar and three peso
accounts.
Commingled family and corporate
funds.
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Waiving
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Prompted by news of a probe into Chief Justice Renato
Coronas dollar accounts, the Defense asked the Senate
to subpoena Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales, who
is conducting the investigation, and those who signed the
complaint she is looking into. The result of her probe had, in
fact, already been referred to the House Speaker for another
possible impeachment complaint once the one-year bar
expires in December.
In her testimony, retired High Court magistrate Morales
alleged in a PowerPoint presentation that Corona had at
least $10 million in transactional balances through 82
dollar accounts from April 2003 to February 2012. She also
elections and the impeachment last December.
The presentation, according to Morales, was based on raw
authenticate those documents, although one of its three
members, Insurance Commissioner Emmanuel Dooc,
. The propriety, and even the legality
been questioned.
Nonetheless, Morales made these
in her presentation, which was produced by Commission
on Audit Commissioner Heidi Mendoza:
branches/places
the
Ombudsman revealed that two separate deposits of
$500,000 were made to a Bank of the Philippine Islands
(BPI) Acropolis account on May 12 and May 14, 2004. On
to $293,645.23 were made to a BPI San Francisco del
cjpanganiban.ph
The Ombudsmans testimony: The whole truth or a lantern of lies?By Atty. John Carlo Gil M. Sadian
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Monte dollar account. Morales also said that on the week
the Chief Justice was impeached, a total of almost $3.4
million were moved from Corona's alleged dollar accounts
in BPI, Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank), and Allied Bank.
Thus, between April 14, 2003 to December 22, 2011, the
amounted to a staggering $12.15 million. Note that the
balances but rather they are transaction balances.
Corona quickly disputed the PowerPoint presentation,
calling it a lantern of lies. According to the Chief Justice,
The number of accounts alone is at best ridiculous. Her
PowerPoint diagram is a lantern of lies which only messed
up her presentation, contrary to what some believe now as
damning evidence. He eventually used his own PowerPoint
presentation to rebut Morales allegations when he took
the witness stand.
a statement
saying, Either she does not know what she is talkingabout or is purposely misleading the Impeachment Court
at the bloated numbers?When asked by defense lead
accuracy of the data, Morales herself admitted, I would
not have known that because the report was furnished to
Checking out a column by Rigoberto Tiglao in the Philippine
Daily Inquirer, the Inquirer reported, in a separate article,
that bankers uniformly said that an estimate of the
Supreme Court chiefs bank account balances made
by adding up all transaction values over time would be
said that Tiglaos column was on the correct track.
Besides citing the gross error of summing up transactions
to come up with balances, the columnist had argued that
many of the 82 accounts were probably created for short-
term investments like time deposits and money-market
placements, each of which would require a separate bank
account, to be closed once the investment matured.
In his Senate testimony, Corona disclosed that he had
only four dollar accounts containing $2.4 million. With his
waiver allowing banks and government agencies to revealhis assets and business connections, probers can now
check who is telling the truth: the Ombudsman or the man
she investigated.
Date Amount in $ Transaction
December 12 470,978.80 trust fund contributionplacement investment
December 12-13 135,359.01 Encashment
December 13 388,771.22 purchase of manager's check
December 13 12,888.67 debit memo
December 15 465,000.00 securities sold
December 15 343,192.62 Withdrawal
December 19 487,998.09 purchase of manager's check
December 19 22,998.09 excess of deposits
December 20 687,648.55 debit memo
source: TCR compilation
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From court to hospital.
barred the
Presiding
Back in trial with a waiver and no
ifs.
he
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How much money does the CJ have?
regarding
sub judice
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March-June 2010: Arroyo appoints CJ Corona
as Aquino protests. The Supreme Court ruled in
De Castro vs. Judicial and Bar Councilthat thenPresident Gloria Arroyo could appoint the next Chief
Justice. Two months later CJ Renato Corona was
sworn in. President-elect Benigno Aquino III disputed
the appointment; on June 30 he took his oath before
Associate Justice Morales, who dissented in the
March 17 ruling.
July-December 2010: Aquinos Truth
Commission is ruled unconstitutional. On July
30, President Aquino issued Executive Order No. 1creating the Truth Commission to investigate alleged
corruption in the past administration. In August, the
House opposition questioned the constitutionality of
the Truth Commission. On December 7, 2010, the
Supreme Court declared EO 1 unconstitutional for
violating the equal protection clause, but suggested
revisions to make it abide by the charter.
September 2010-April 2011: High Court stops,
then clears Gutierrez impeachment. The Supreme
Court issued a status quo ante order stopping
impeachment proceedings against then Ombudsman
Merceditas Gutierrez, but lifts the stay in February
212 Congressmen
voted to impeach the Ombudsman. On April 29, ten
days before her Senate trial was to begin, Gutierrez
resigned.
October 14, 2010: TRO on EO 2 stirs Aquinos
The Supreme
Court issued a status quo anteorder stopping
implementation of Executive Order No. 2 removing
election ban on presidential appointments tookeffect. Aquino criticized the ruling as blocking his
reforms and warned of chaos and paralysis in
government.
November 15, 2011: Aquino government
disobeys TRO on Arroyo travel ban. The Supreme
Court voted 8-5 to issue a temporary restraining
order (TRO) on the Department of Justice (DOJ)
watch list barring former President Arroyo and her
husband Jose Miguel Arroyo from travel abroad.
Chief Executive vs. Chief Justice: Road to impeachment
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judge Jesus Mupas orders Arroyos arrest for alleged
electoral sabotage, an unbailable offense.
November 2011-April 2012: Supreme Court
orders Hacienda Luisita distributed. The Supreme
Court ruled 14-0
President Aquino
accepts the decision on his Cojuangco familysestate, citing two objectives: empowerment of the
farmers [and] just compensation for the landowners.
On April 24, 2012, the High Courts
1989 prices, denying the clans 10-billion demand.
December 4, 2011: The Chief Executive lambasts
the Chief Justice to his face. President Aquino
lashed out at CJ Corona at the 1st National Criminal
Justice Summit. In his speech, the Chief Executive
lambasted the Chief Justice as a midnight appointee,and repeated attacks on High Court rulings against
his EOs. Coronas calm response: Just let it be. Its
December 12, 2011: House impeaches
Based
on a 20-minute Powerpoint presentation, 188
congressmen signed the 57-page Articles of
Impeachment against Corona. On January 12,
President Aquino praises his partymates for the
Corona impeachment.
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ARTICLE I. Respondent betrayedthe public trust through his track
record marked by partiality and
subservience in cases involving the
Arroyo administration from the
time of his appointment as Supreme
Court Justice which continued to his
dubious appointment as a midnight
Chief Justice and up to the present.
Your Honor: ImpeachmentCharges, Responses, andEvidence By Atty. John Carlo Gil M. Sadian