Her lips are sealed. Araos, right, and Paule at Senate hearing.
PHOTO BY PHILIP DUQUIATAN
IBP to SC: Suspend
RaulGon as lawyer
Misconduct found in P10T offer for 12-0 admin win
BY EVANGELINE DE VERA
THE Integrated Bar of the Philippines has recommended the
suspension of Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez for obstruction of electoral
processes.
In a one-page notice, the IBP Commission on Bar Discipline
through its national secretary Tomas Prado took note of the Board of
Governors’ Resolution dated Nov. 20, 2008 that "resolved to reverse… the
Report and Recommendation of the Investigating Commissioner and approve the
suspension from the practice of law for one year of Gonzalez for his
reprehensible conduct of openly and publicly offering P10,000 to any barrio
captain in his area (Iloilo) of political influence who can give a 12-0 vote
in favor of President Arroyo’s senatorial candidates and taking into
consideration his previous professional misconduct."
As mandated, the IBP through the Commission on Bar
Discipline acted as prosecutor in the complaint that investigated the case for
finding of probable cause.
WASHINGTON. —Barack Obama makes history on Tuesday as
America’s first black president, riding the optimism of
millions of people into power and inheriting a recession
and two wars that will test his skills.
Obama, 47, the son of a Kenyan father
and a white mother from Kansas, takes his oath of office
at midday (1 p.m. Wednesday in Manila) on the steps of the
US Capitol, his hand placed on a Bible used by Abraham
Lincoln at his first inauguration in 1861.
Obama’s inauguration culminates the
hopes and dreams of generations of African-Americans who
suffered slavery and then racial segregation policies that
made them second-class citizens.
Prosecutors
stay grounded
until GMA says otherwise
BY REGINA BENGCO
JUSTICE Secretary Raul Gonzalez yesterday
said NBI-cleared officials and state prosecutors who were
ordered to go on leave pending the probe on the bribery scandal
of the so-called Alabang Boys cannot return to work until
ordered by President Arroyo.
"It was the President who ordered that they
should go on leave although the President emphasized that that
leave is not punitive in nature. It’s not what we consider as a
suspension," he said.
Placed by Gonzalez on forced leave last week
were Chief State Prosecutor Jovencito Zuño, Undersecretary
Ricardo Blancaflor, and state prosecutors John Resado, Misael
Ladaga and John Ladaga.
