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Why Noynoy, Abad Could Have Been Indicted For Bigger Charges
Sen. Dick Gordon: "PNoy, Abad Could Have Been Indicted for Bigger Charges"
One amongst the country's most significant lawmaker, Senator Richard "Dick" Gordon disclosed the truth throughout an interview with certain media outlets that former Pres. Noynoy Aquino (PNoy), former Budget Secretary Butch Abad might have been indicted for bigger charges specifically malversation and also graft and corruption.

Based on Sen. Gordon while cooperating with the judgment of the office of the Ombudsman to indict former Pres. Noynoy Aquino and also former Budget Secretary Butch Abad for supposed usurpation of powers along with DAP controversy, he stated they may have been indicted for bigger charges.

In an announcement throughout a radio interview, Sen. Dick Gordon was cited as stating “As chairman of the Committee on Justice and Human Rights, I agree with the Ombudsman that there was usurpation. But, though I don’t know all the facts yet, I would have chosen the more stringent offenses which are graft and corruption and malversation. They were even guilty of malversation, technical malversation. Yung sa malversation, absorbed na ang usurpation doon e. In order to commit malversation, they usurped the powers of Congress,” he claimed when questioned in an interview over the radio.
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Gordon discussed that the DAP submission at the time of Noynoy Aquino's term prices to technical malversation due to the fact Aquino and also Abad tampered with the appropriations by proclaiming it as savings so that they could use up the fund anywhere else, purposely substituting their judgement for the decision of

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