Poe cautions justice department over Cunanan as state witness

In the 10th Senate blue ribbon hearing on the pork barrel scam Thursday, March 6, Senator Grace Poe cautioned the justice department over admitting Technology Resource Center Director General Dennis Cunanan as a state witness. Poe was primarily concerned that Cunanan’s blanket denial that he did not benefit from the multi-billion-peso scam contradicts the detailed testimony of whistleblower and only state witness Benhur Luy that the TRC chief possibly received a bagful of cash from alleged mastermind Janet Lim Napoles. The senator also retorted a number of times whenever Cunanan claimed almost total innocence about how deals involving the Priority Development Assistance Fund of lawmakers worked.

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