senate ends bolante hearing

finally, the senate adjourned its hearings. next hearing to be announced later.

I BET – bolante will not go back to senate

lacson grills bolante. dami nang inconsistencies.

Fertilizer fund not a scam, Bolante insists

Legarda now asking Bolante, who received money. Bolante insists the fertilizer fund is not a scam.

bolante, 3

ang dami nang nasabi hindi pa nagta-take oath si bolante. (i tried live blogging. then this afternoon, i see i haven’t published these notes taken down this morning. HAHAHA!

bolante, part 2

trying to blog about the hearing, as it happens.

bolante will be allowed to go home

At the end of the hearing, Bolante will be allowed to leave the Senate, though still under Senate custody. He will be assigned guards who will go with him wherever he goes, but he may choose where to go, as long as he does not leave the country. Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano brought this up [...]

break from the hearing

I’m not blogging because i refuse to wear myself out writing a blow-by-blow account of some politicians’ grandstanding, and the repetitious account that Bolante is giving.

bolante hearings resume after lunch

The senate hearings on the fertilizer scam, with bolante on the hot seat, resumed after lunch. i stopped taking notes when the s***t began to disgust me. biazon is asking the questions now.

bolante being grilled by mar

Mar: kailan inaprubahan ni gma ang paggamit ng pondo para sa eleksyon?
Bolante: arroyo not involved, never involved in project. Project was processed by dbm, did not require approval of pres arroyo.

bolante ends speech

End of bolante speech, questioning begins.