ABS CBN (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gina de Venecia, wife of Pangasinan 2nd District Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr., admitted that her husband was also at the controversial golf game of the First Couple and former Commission on Elections (COMELEC) chair Benjamin Abalos and several officials of ZTE Corp. in Shenzhen, China back in 2006, but said her husband was merely invited to the game.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | yesterday
The surfacing of a supposed new witness in the multi-million dollar broadband deal mess is part of a political propaganda in preparation for the 2010 presidential election, a lawyer for former election chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. said Thursday.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
Former Commission on Elections (COMELEC) chairman Benjamin Abalos' "burjer," or at least T-shirts from his restaurant, were distributed to journalists covering the Senate Monday by Sen. Manuel Roxas II.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
By CARMELA FONBUENA abs-cbnNEWS.com/ Newsbreak It's been about seven months since the Senate hearing on the broadband deal was launched. So far, it has achieved two major results. One, President Arroyo scrapped the $329-million broadband deal with ZTE Corp. Two, Benjamin Abalos resigned after Romulo Neri's allegations.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) chair Romulo Neri and resigned polls chief Benjamin Abalos Sr. will not be attending next Tuesday's hearing on the Senate probe on the National Broadband Network (NBN) deal between the Philippine government and ZTE Corp. of China.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
Former elections chief Benjamin Abalos Sr. confirmed Tuesday night that he is scheduled to leave for the United States after bagging the top prize at a golf tournament. He, however, denied that he is running away from controversies that erupted from the botched national broadband network project.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
The lawyer of former poll chief Benjamin Abalos Sr. on Friday said an alleged wiretapped phone conversation between Senate witnesses Rodolfo "Jun" Lozada Jr. and businessman Joey de Venecia III is just a setup to implicate his client in the scrapped $329 million ZTE broadband deal.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
The 13-year-old grandson of former Commission on Elections chief Benjamin Abalos Jr. said that he really is a close friend of one of the sons of Rodolfo Noel "Jun" Lozada Jr., contrary to a statement of the Senate star witness.
League of Filipino Students (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
LFS chairman Vencer Crisostomo said: “Clearly, Neri has already gone over to the dark side." "While at one point, he passed himself off as a whistle-blower who exposed former Commission on Elections chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr.'s P200-million bribe offer in connection with the NBN-ZTE deal, he has cast his lot with GMA and her cabal," said Crisostomo.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
The Office of the Ombudsman summoned Friday First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo, former elections chief Benjamin Abalos and several others to its preliminary investigation Monday morning into the national broadband network (NBN) deal.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
The National Bureau of Investigation on Thursday admitted that it is investigating Senate witness Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr. after the former Philippine Forest Corp official implicated President Arroyo's husband Jose Miguel Arroyo and former Commission on Elections chairman Benjamin Abalos in alleged overpricing and bribery.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
He's been accused of bribery, corruption and threatening to kill a government consultant. Through it all, resigned poll chief Benjamin Abalos Sr. says he remains unfazed by the allegations, adding that he sleeps well at night because the people love him.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Rodolfo "Jun" Lozada Jr. has seen enough. At least from what he knows and how he has known former Commission on Elections chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr., whom he accused of brokering the scrapped national broadband network (NBN) project.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Former poll chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. said Sunday he is preparing to file a libel case against Senate witness Rodolfo "Jun" Lozada Jr. for implicating him to the aborted $329-million national broadband (NBN) project.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano said Sunday that Benjamin Abalos Sr., former chairman of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), is welcome to clear his name during the Senate hearing on Monday. Abalos, however, should not give senators the runaround, the senator added.
