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                    [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.


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                    [Title] => PEA abolition to push thru despite COA findings
                    [Summary] => President Arroyo wants the Public Estates Authority (PEA) disbanded even after the Commission on Audit (COA) has ruled that the 4.9-kilometer, P1.1-billion Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard in Pasay City was not overpriced, Malacañang said yesterday.


Executive Secretary Alberto Romulo said Mrs. Arroyo will discuss with leaders of Congress the immediate passage of a bill seeking the agency’s abolition during the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council meeting in Malacañang today.


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                    [Title] => Justify charges vs PEA execs, solons urge Palace
                    [Summary] => There must be some justification for this.


Opposition Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr. asked Malacañang yesterday to justify its order to punish seven Public Estates Authority (PEA) board members with perpetual disqualification from public office after they were found "administratively guilty" for the overpricing of the President Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard (PDMB) in Pasay City.


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                    [Title] => GMA: Fired PEA execs barred from public office
                    [Summary] => President Arroyo has affirmed the guilty verdict handed down by the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission (PAGC) on the seven board members of the Public Estates Authority (PEA) accused of overpricing the construction of the President Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard.


The seven PEA officials were board chairman Ernest Villareal, general manager and ex officio board member Benjamin Cariño, and board members Rodolfo Tuazon, Angelito Villanueva, Martin Sanciego Jr., Joemarie Gerochi, and Sulficio Tagud Jr., the whistle- blower in the P600-million overpricing scam.


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                    [Title] => PAGC files graft raps vs PEA officials
                    [Summary] => The Presidential Anti-Graft Commission (PAGC) has filed formal graft charges against officials of the Public Estates Authority (PEA) in connection with the alleged overprice in the construction of the President Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard (PDMB).


                    [DatePublished] => 2002-11-15 00:00:00
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                    [Title] => Malacañang: PEA’s directors-on-leave ready to step down
                    [Summary] => The remaining members of the Public Estates Authority (PEA) board of directors are now willing to step down, Malacañang officials said yesterday.


PEA chairman Ernest Villareal, however, denied the Palace’s statement. Thus far, only Joemari Gerochi has resigned from the seven-man PEA board of directors.  


"We have not received any information or report about (Malacañang’s announcement)," Villareal, who is currently on leave, told The STAR in a telephone interview.  


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                    [Title] => More charges set to be filed vs PEA whistle-blower
                    [Summary] => Charges and counter-charges.


Public Estates Authority board director Rodolfo Tuazon yesterday said he is poised to file charges against his colleague-turned-scam whisle-blower Sulficio Tagud Jr. for implicating him and other members of the PEA board in an anomaly that he claimed never existed.


In a telephone interview, Tuazon told The STAR he and his colleagues will sue Tagud for malicious mischief, malicious prosecution, perjury and libel.


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                    [Title] => PEA ‘jacked up’ contractor’s estimate on road project - Oreta
                    [Summary] => The Public Estates Authority (PEA) allegedly "jacked up" the cost estimate submitted by contractor J.D. Legaspi Construction Co. (JDLCC) for the additional road widening work on the two-lane, 1.4-kilometer Bay Boulevard project, Sen. Teresa Aquino-Oreta claimed yesterday.


Meanwhile, it was discovered that embattled PEA chairman Ernest Villareal is also the concurrent board chairman and acting president of the PEA Tollway Corp. (PEATC), a subsidiary of the PEA.


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                    [Title] => Another scandal rocks PEA
                    [Summary] => A new P2-million anomaly has been uncovered at the Public Estates Authority Tollway Corp. (PEATC), a subsidiary of the scandal-racked Public Estates Authority (PEA).


This came as Sen. Tessie Aquino-Oreta bared that the PEA had a new project, which it was hiding from the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, on the controversy-ridden President Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard (PDMB) that was again awarded to JD Legaspi Construction Co. (JDLCC).


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                    [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.


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BENJAMIN CARI

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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.


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Executive Secretary Alberto Romulo said Mrs. Arroyo will discuss with leaders of Congress the immediate passage of a bill seeking the agency’s abolition during the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council meeting in Malacañang today.


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The seven PEA officials were board chairman Ernest Villareal, general manager and ex officio board member Benjamin Cariño, and board members Rodolfo Tuazon, Angelito Villanueva, Martin Sanciego Jr., Joemarie Gerochi, and Sulficio Tagud Jr., the whistle- blower in the P600-million overpricing scam.


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PEA chairman Ernest Villareal, however, denied the Palace’s statement. Thus far, only Joemari Gerochi has resigned from the seven-man PEA board of directors.  


"We have not received any information or report about (Malacañang’s announcement)," Villareal, who is currently on leave, told The STAR in a telephone interview.  


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In a telephone interview, Tuazon told The STAR he and his colleagues will sue Tagud for malicious mischief, malicious prosecution, perjury and libel.


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Meanwhile, it was discovered that embattled PEA chairman Ernest Villareal is also the concurrent board chairman and acting president of the PEA Tollway Corp. (PEATC), a subsidiary of the PEA.


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