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PLEA BARGAIN FROM PORK BARREL QUEEN JANET NAPOLES

imageMakati City, Philippines – The lawyer of suspected pork barrel queen Janet Lim-Napoles announced that her client has agreed to a plea bargain in the criminal case filed against her by accepting a penalty of “community service,” in order to avoid jail time.

Along with top congressional leaders, Napoles was charged with plunder in a 10-billion peso pork barrel scam in which taxpayer funds were funneled into bogus non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and into the personal accounts of Napoles and top legislators and government officials.

Attorney Lorna Kapunan told  The Adobo Chronicles that Napoles has agreed to perform community service for life instead of rotting in jail for her crime.

Asked about what kind of community service would be involved, Kapunan said that her client will serve as a housemaid for Dominga Cadelina, Napoles’ former househelp who was jailed last February for alleged qualified theft filed against her by Napoles.

Cadelina
Cadelina

Cadelina was recently ordered released from jail by the Makati City Regional Trial Court for lack of merit on the theft case filed against her.

This unprecedented plea bargain is the first known such case in which, in Kapunan’s words, “the master and servant roles are totally reversed.

APPLE TO RELEASE LIMITED EDITION iPHONE 5S TRIO

imageCupertino, California – As Apple rolled out its new iPhone 5S today, many consumers faced the dilemma of which color phone to purchase: silver, gold or space grey.

There’s good news for those who can’t decide on the iPhone color.  Apple has just announced that it will soon release a limited edition of the new iPhone 5S which will incorporate all three colors, or rather, three phones in one.

imageApple has partnered with the makers of the Rubix Cube to come up with a design with all three phones – silver, gold and space grey.  The single unit has all three phones connected by a special mechanism that  can rotate the phones and put the phone user’s favorite color of the moment at the top of the unit.  The mechanism uses the same principle used in Rubix cubes whereby, with skill, one can manipulate the cube to bring one color on top.

The limited edition iPhone 5S has one downside, and that is, it is obviously heavier than the single unit.  “But for the fickle-minded, it is a little price to pay to enjoy all three colors of the phone ” Apple said.  Apple has not yet revealed the retail cost of the limited edition which it is calling the iPhone 5S Trio.

DUEL OVER BAY BRIDGE NAME SHIFTS TO THE WEST

imageSacramento, California – Previously, The Adobo Chronicles reported on the duel between the Asian Mayors of San Francisco and Oakland over naming the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge.  Oakland Mayor Jean Quan wants the new span to be named Oakland Bay Bridge because it sits in the eastern side of the Oakland-San Francisco border. On  the other hand, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee says that because the new span casts its shadow over Yerba Buena Island which is in San Francisco, the span should be named San Francisco Bay Bridge.

Now that the new span is open, the name fight has shifted to the West.  The California State Assembly passed a resolution that would name both the eastern and western spans of the bridge after former Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.  The resolution was proposed by Assemblyman Isadore Hall III, D-Compton and Assemlyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco.

The resolution is expected to clear the State Senate as well.

Three former San Francisco Board of Supervisors presidents sent a letter to the Senate arguing against the move, saying that renaming the bridge violates the Senate’s policy against christening roadways after people who are still alive – and that naming the bridge after the oft-controversial Brown is “inappropriate.”

Asked about his reaction to the proposed name change, California Governor Jerry Brown said, “I am not totally against naming the bridge after my good friend Willie, but I would prefer that instead of naming the bridge ‘Willie Brown Bridge,’ it  should simply be named ‘Brown Bridge.’ This way, my supporters and my grandchildren and great grandchildren can claim that the bridge was named after me.”

Willie Brown is distancing himself from the issue, at least pubicly.