(Eagle News) — Newly elected Senate President Tito Sotto on Thursday, May 24, said he wants his predecessor, Koko Pimentel, to head the chamber’s ethics panel. “I was thinking he would take over that committee..,” Sotto said at a weekly forum. According to Sotto, Pimentel “has the stature, his work ethics is impeccable.” He said, however, that he has not talked to Pimentel about the possibility yet. The Senate ethics panel is currently headed by […]
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Senate ethics panel junks ethics complaints vs De Lima
(Eagle News) — The Senate ethics committee has junked the three ethics cases filed against detained Senator Leila de Lima. It was Senator Franklin Drilon who moved for the dismissal of the cases filed by the House of Representatives led by Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, and by Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque and lawyer Abelardo de Jesus following allegations De Lima advised Ronnie Dayan against attending the House probe into her alleged role in illegal drug trading in the […]





