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After principal pork barrel scam witness Benhur Lu relie!e" law er Le!ito Baligo" as his counsel, there are in"ications more witnesses will "o the same. #$EAD' Lu relie!es Baligo" as PDAF scam counsel) Lu *s mother +etru"es an" another unname" whistleblower are also reporte"l contemplating cutting the ser!ices of Baligo", who is also a pri!ate complainant in the pork barrel case that has implicate" , senators an" a number of lawmakers in the -ouse of $epresentati!es.(or now, Baligo" is still representing Merlina Su/as, another whistleblower. Lu ha" been 0seeking attention” an" sen"ing signals to Baligo" a number of times that he felt ignore", but the law er apparentl pai" no attention. A source pri! to "e!elopments in the witnesses2 camp sai" Lu an" Baligo" trie" to patch things up, at least once, but it "i" not work. 0The alrea" ha" a one3on-one meeting to "iscuss each other’s issues but apparentl the were not able to arri!e at a compromise,” the source sai". Newl wi"owe" when he took on Lu 2s case in earl 456,, Baligo" got engage" last 7anuar to a wealth Le te politician, Marilou +alen8oga. Baligo" was fre9uentl seen in Ba ba , his :anc;e2s home cit , almost e!er week since Super T phoon <olan"a "e!astate" the place last No!ember. -e has also become part of +alen8oga2s legal team in her pen"ing election cases. Last straw: Justice Gregory Ong probe Lu reporte"l :rst obser!e" that Baligo" “ha" his min" on other things” whene!er the woul" ha!e hearings at the Makati $egional =ourt, which is tr ing the illegal "etention case. Lu repeats this e>planation at a Senate Blue $ibbon committee hearing. Baligo" onl atten"e" at least twice in the man times Lu an" other witnesses were summone" b the court. In one instance, Baligo" reporte"l left the court after being there for onl 6? minutes. A reporter co!ering the procee"ings con:rme" she saw Baligo" onl “once or twice1 in court. Baligo" woul" also miss se!eral appearances in the Senate blue ribbon committee hearings on the pork barrel scam. But what apparentl broke the camel*s back was when Baligo" faile" to accompan Lu when he appeare" before a Supreme =ourt in!estigation into the allegations raise" against San"iganba an Senior 7ustice +regor @ng. #$EAD' %>clusi!e' Napoles parties with anti-graft court Austice) The .= has tappe" retire" 7ustice Angelina San"o!al3+utierre8 to look into the allegations raise" b Lu "uring one Senate hearing – that @ng was a regular :>ture in parties where Napoles was also present. @ng is a member of the Bth &i!ision that trie" the P3.C million De!lar helmet case where Napoles was among the accuse". Napoles was ac9uitte" of the charges but her brother $e nal" an" his wife Anna Marie &ulguime were con!icte" for conspirac to falsif public "ocuments. #$EA&' -ow 7anet3Lim Napoles got awa ) In that .= hearing, Lu was instea" accompanie" b two law ers sent b Baligo". The also reporte"l argue" o!er the phone o!er an issue in!ol!ing "isclosures. The source woul" not re!eal "etails of what le" to the argument, citing law er3client con:"entialit . $appler trie" to call Baligo" se!eral times but he has not returne" calls. Legal strategy Luy also complained that he was being kept in the dark by Baligod about legal strategies in building up the pork barrel case. One particular instance involved Technology Resource Center chief Dennis Cunanan (officially on leave), who was initially tagged by Luy as among those who benefitted from the pork barrel scam. Cunanan however denied that he pocketed rebates from Napoles. Baligod has tapped Cunanan to help pin Senator Ramon “Bong" Revilla Jr in the pork barrel scam. Cunanan is now a “provisional state witness., A source from the whistleblower.s camp said Luy is concerned that his and Cunanan.s testimony will not jibe as far as his culpability in the scam is concerned. *0e.re saying he accepted bribes. He is saying he did not. How do we reconcile this conflicting claim?” the source said. Luy is also reportedly uncomfortable about Baligod being Cunanan.s counsel. In an earlier phone interview& Baligod confirmed that he is counsel for Cunanan, stressing that he had known Cunanan even before the pork barrel scandal broke out. “In fact, only after I got confirmation from Cunanan that the pork barrel of the lawmakers was misused that I found the resolve to pursue the case,, Baligod said in that interview. Thankful @n Mon"a afternoon, March ,, Lu procee"e" to the National Bureau of In!estigation to formall inform authorities that he was se!ering ties with Baligo", his counsel in the pork barrel case an" in the illegal "etention case he :le" against former emplo er an" cousin 7anet Lim Napoles. @n Tues"a , 7ustice Secretar Leila "e Lima con:rme" that Lu ha" se!ere" his ties with Baligo", on the groun" that Baligo" lacke" the time to atten" to Lu 2s legal nee"s. “It has been a rough an" rugge" roa" for us, an" for all ou ha!e "one, I am eternall thankful. -owe!er, I ha!e notice" that ou are !er bus with our other a"!ocacies an" that is wh I ha!e "eci"e" to pursue this Aourne e!en without E ouF gui"ing me,” a portion of Lu *s letter to Baligo" sai". The witnesses who want to drop Baligod are also citing "lack of time" on his part to attend to their legal needs. In several instances, Luy complained that Baligod “lacked time for us,, and these would reach Baligod. When Super Typhoon Haiyan struck, Baligod could not be reached by the whistleblowers, who found out later that the lawyer went to Baybay& Leyte, to help out in his fiancée's relief operations. 7 Rappler.com 8 88 .+ 0 0 03/11/14--05:27: Legal Ethics. - December 2013 Philippine Supreme Court Decisions on Legal and Judicial Ethics | LEXOTERICA: A PHILIPPINE BLAWG See - December 2013 Philippine Supreme Court Decisions on Legal and Judicial Ethics | LEXOTERICA: A PHILIPPINE BLAWG "x x x. Attorney; Applicability of the Code of Professional Responsibility to lawyers in government service in the discharge of their official tasks. Private respon"ents were charge" before the Court of Tax Appeals for violation of the TariG an" Customs Co"e of the Philippines, as amen"e". -owe!er, the CTA "ismisse" the case since the prosecution faile" to present certifie" true copies of the "ocumentary evidence submitte" contrary to .ection H, $ule 6,5 an" .ection 64H, $ule 6,4 of the $ules of Court. The $un After the .mugglers #RAT.) +roup, $e!enue Collection Monitoring +roup #$CM+), as counsel for the B@C, file" a petition for certiorari but the petition was file" be on" the reglementar perio". The .upreme Court held that the "ispla of patent violations of e!en the elementary rules shows that the case against respon"ents was "oome" by "esign from the start. This stance taken by the lawyers in go!ernment service rouses the Court*s vigilance against ineIciency in the a"ministration of justice. Jeril , the lawyers representing the oIces un"er the e>ecutive branch should be remin"e" that they still remain as oIcers of the court from whom a high sense of competence an" fer!or is expecte".