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Former Philippine President Joseph Ejercito Estrada was declared not guilty of perjury but was convicted of plunder yesterday, September 12 at the Sandiganbayan.
Here are the highlight verdicts (source: GMA news):

GUILTY of plunder for taking P189.7-M kickback from purchase of Belle Corp stocks and P545-M payola from ‘jueteng’ operators
CLEARED of diverting tobacco excise tax and maintaining [...]

Will Erap be declared guilty? Here are the charges filed against former President Joseph Estrada (source: GMAnews):
Plunder - violation of Republic Act No. 7080

received P545-million protection money from jueteng operators
diverted P130-million tobacco excise tax share of Ilocos Sur
received P189.7-million kickback from Belle Corp. for GSIS, SSS [...]

Last week, the buzz about ABS CBN’s afternoon game show Wowowee cheating in their wilyonaryo segment started to circulate in the internet. The “Wilyonaryo’s controversial video” is actually posted in several Filipino sites. Yesterday, Willie Revillame has spoke up during the show but instead of explaining why there are two numbers in the colored wheels, [...]