Gloriagate

The scandal is getting bigger, and the press has named it "Gloriagate"...

As far as I can tell from the Manila Bulletin, Gloria's son Mikey has denied getting payoffs from illegal gambling...

Gloria's telephone was wiretapped, and someone named Ong has the tapes, and he's hiding out at a local seminary...but the bishop is mad about it...

However, on a side page (I can't find the links on line) it mentions that the tapes are on sale in Manila along with other illegal cd's and dvd's...the street vendors handed over a truckload of these cd's "voluntarily"...(sure they did)...but the bureaucrat in charge of monitoring pirating cd's says that unless the person who did the taping makes a formal complaint about copyright fraud, he can't do anything about stopping the tapes...

My husband figures all politicians are greedy, even if they come from rich families like Gloria...

In the meanwhile, 14 communist guerillas were killed in Pampanga....which is not that far from here....