FACT CHECK: Martin Romualdez remains detained in Payatas jail
The lawmaker is still in detention at the New Quezon City Jail for his multibillion-peso plunder case tied to the flood control controversy
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Ombudsman files flood control graft case vs Dong Gonzales
The lawsuit comes more than a year after Rappler first reported about Gonzales’ ties to A.D. Gonzales Jr. Construction, which won hundreds of millions of pesos in DPWH contracts
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[EDITORIAL] Pinagpala talaga si Imelda Marcos at Martin Romualdez
‘Victory for impunity’ raw ito sa ilalim ng sistema na laging talo ang accountability kapag bumangga sa kapangyarihan, yaman, at pagde-delay gamit ang legal muscle
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Martin Romualdez ordered transferred from PGH to Payatas jail
(1st UPDATE) PGH doctors find that Romualdez is in stable condition and no longer needs confinement
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Marcos brushes off Sara Duterte’s ire: Can’t force love
The Philippine president, speaking at relative length for the first time on the legal woes of both former ally Vice President Sara Duterte and cousin Martin Romualdez, injects some levity in his responses
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Pre-shaded ballots, vote buying, violence in first BARMM elections | The wRap
Today’s headlines: BARMM elections, Martin Romualdez, Chiz Escudero
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Martin Romualdez now in Payatas jail a week after arrest
(1st UPDATE) The Sandiganbayan 3rd Division ordered Romualdez’s transfer of custody from PGH to Payatas after PGH doctors found that he is in stable condition and no longer in need of hospital confinement
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Rappler Recap: Martin Romualdez jailed in Payatas a week after arrest
Romualdez’s detention comes only a week after his arrest because he was placed under hospital confinement
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Martin Romualdez pleads not guilty to plunder; case moves to trial
(2nd UPDATE) Romualdez, whom the Office of the Ombudsman called the alleged ‘central figure’ in the flood control scheme, was charged with plunder on September 7 for allegedly receiving kickbacks
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Sara Duterte’s arraignment for grave threats postponed again
The Vice President was also supposed to be arraigned on September 11, but it was deferred after her camp sought to inhibit the judge from the case
