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Dominique Nicole Flores – Philstar.com November 28, 2024 | 11:24am MANILA, Philippines — The House Quad Committee lifted the contempt order issued to dismissed Mexico, Pampanga Mayor Teddy Tumang, on the condition that he provides truthful answers in future hearings. Before the four-committee panel suspended its probe on the illegal drug trade and offshore scam […]
A disgraced real-estate lawyer who this week admitted to pilfering millions in client money to support her and her family’s lavish lifestyle was handcuffed in a Toronto courtroom Friday afternoon and marched out by a constable to serve a 20-day sentence for contempt of court, as her husband and mother watched. Singa Bui “consistently ignored […]
Dominique Nicole Flores – Philstar.com November 11, 2024 | 4:18pm MANILA, Philippines — Four Office of the Vice President officials were cited in contempt and ordered detained on Monday, November 11, after repeatedly refusing to attend the House probe into alleged misuse of public funds under Vice President Sara Duterte. The House Committee on Good […]
2 The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) today exempted seven pro-BNP lawyers from contempt of court charges brought against them for holding press conference against two the then judges of the apex court and bringing out procession on the court premises. “Dismissed as being not press,” said the order passed by the four-member […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has refuted accusations by the Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, that its chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu flouted a court order regarding the prosecution of electoral offenders. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, said this in a statement Wednesday in Abuja. Olumekun […]
The last time Steve Bannon was a free man, Joe Biden was the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. Bannon, the right-wing podcast host and former Donald Trump campaign official, was released from federal Bureau of Prisons custody on Tuesday, with exactly one week to go until voters choose between his former boss and Vice President […]