Take that three-part series on then Executive Secretary Edgardo Angara’s chronicle of President Joseph Estrada’s last days in Malacañang. The Inquirer report that Alih was still alive led to a manhunt and the filing of murder charges against him. Still citing Angara’s diary as basis, the high court later dismissed Estrada’s motion for reconsideration. “Yasay American, Filipino or stateless?” by Juliet Labog-Javellana; Feb. 27, 2017The story was one of the paper’s biggest scoops in 2017. The report led to a Senate scrutiny not only of the DPWH projects but also the department’s entire budget.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 08, 2019 19:52 UTC