Rappler's latest stories on special allotment release orders
Ball starts rolling at last for PDAF scam plunder trials
After Bong Revilla's plunder trial, Jinggoy Estrada is next, to be followed by former representative Edgar Valdez
Teachers, DepEd employees to get productivity pay soon
The budget department has released P14 billion for the Productivity Enhancement Incentive of teachers and other DepEd employees equivalent to a month s salary
Laguna mayor to be charged over fake fund release orders
Two suppliers have complained that Pakil Mayor Vipops Charles Martinez and his cohorts used fake SAROs to convince them to finance certain town projects
DBM witness: I never saw Napoles' name in documents
Budget Director Carmencita Delantar says she never encountered the name of the alleged scam mastermind in documents related to the release of Senator Juan Ponce Enrile s PDAF
DOJ probes 17 former, current senators in 'Napolist'
Defense lawyers in the current PDAF cases indicate implementing agencies have reason to falsify documents as they financially gain from transacting with NGOs
Abad: No Luisita compensation under DAP
Budget Secretary Florencio Abad says the funds were part of the Department of Agrarian Reform s 2010 and 2011 budgets for the CARP
PDAF case prosecutors hit for evidence used
Sandiganbayan Justice Rafael Lagos points out the evidence cited in the charge sheet against Budget Undersecretary Mario Relampagos has nothing to do with his own office
Haresco on fake SAROs: Why am I being singled out?
The Aklan representative says he wasn t invited by the NBI to give his side; asks why out of 32 congressmen implicated he s the only one set to be charged
NBI: Charge Aklan rep, 4 others over fake SAROs
Charges are recommended against Aklan congressman Teodorico Haresco Jr congressional staff and employees of the budget department
Loi Estrada also channeled pork barrel to Napoles
Letters sent to the agriculture department appear to tie up some loose ends regarding connections between the Estrada family and Janet Napoles
Palace, critics clash on scrapping of SARO
Malacañang says scrapping the SARO system is an anti corruption move; critics say it removes the paper trail of government funds now centralized in the Palace
House staff linked to fake SARO transferred to another dep't
As a precautionary thing the Speaker has moved Jose Badong from the House appropriations committee to the Office of the Secretary General
Source of fake SARO? House has 2 versions of the story
UPDATED Cagayan Rep Baby Aline Alfonso says it was from a staff of the appropriations committee; the Speaker says it s from Zamboanga City Rep Lilia Nuño s staff
De Lima on fake SAROs: DBM staff has to be involved
The NBI is also looking into the alleged proliferation of fake SAROs in Calabarzon Western Visayas and Soccsksargen
