Former Leyte Rep. Eduardo Veloso and former TRC legislative liaison officer Rosalinda Lacsamana were found guilty by the Sandiganbayan of graft and malversation over the misuse of Veloso’s P24-million pork barrel funds in 2007 when he was still a lawmaker.
As legislative liaison officer of the now-defunct TRC, Lacsamana supposedly drafted and signed the memorandum recommending the release of Veloso’s pork funds to Aaron.
The court was also not persuaded by Veloso’s argument that he had merely heard of Aaron from his colleagues in Congress, noting that he was not even able to pinpoint who talked about the TRC and its NGO partners. The antigraft court also found it “unbelievable” that Veloso was not circumspect in assessing Aaron’s qualifications “considering that the projects [were] his only PDAF-funded projects.”
Not only did Lacsamana fail to justify why Aaron was the selected NGO partner, she also failed to provide evidence on how she validated its accreditation or proved she monitored the projects.
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