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    Pork barrel, or simply pork, is a metaphor for the appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to direct expenditures...
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  • Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several...
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  • Church-backed Cebu Coalition Against the Pork Barrel System, the Church People's Alliance Against Pork Barrel, ePIRMA (Empowered People's Initiative and...
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  • involving the Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also known as the pork barrel scam, PSBank was one of the domestic banks included in the senate inquiry...
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    Napoles and Benhur Luy in the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) Pork Barrel scam through agent Catherine Mae "Maya" Santos. He allegedly channeled...
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    the senatorial race in 2010. His alleged involvement in the Napoles pork barrel scam led the Sandiganbayan to issue an arrest warrant against him and...
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    ₱183 million from his discretionary funds in a scandal known as the pork barrel scam. In 2016, he was released after being allowed to post bail. He sought...
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  • is often called pork barrel or earmark or patronage, but those words do not always imply corrupt or undesirable conduct. "Pork barrel" is frequently used...
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  • the Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, otherwise known as the pork barrel scam. JLN Corporation - company of Janet Lim-Napoles. Agri and Economic...
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    Sir Daniel Grian Alexander (born 15 May 1972) is a British former politician who was Chief Secretary to the Treasury between 2010 and 2015. He was the...
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  • Pork Barrel is a 1979 video game developed by George Blank and published by Ramware for the TRS-80. Pork Barrel is a game about passing bills to win an...
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    of protests in the Philippines calling for the total abolition of the Pork Barrel fund, triggered by public anger over the Priority Development Assistance...
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    Commerce Committee from 1997 to 2001 and 2003 to 2005, where he opposed pork barrel spending and earmarks. He belonged to the bipartisan "Gang of 14", which...
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    started, Carter issued a "hit list" of 19 projects that he claimed were "pork barrel" spending. He said that he would veto any legislation that contained...
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    misappropriated funds, this time about the PDAF or what is commonly called the pork barrel fund. Twenty billion pesos worth of Priority Development Fund was illegally...
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  • Jinggoy Estrada and Janet Lim-Napoles of plunder in relation to the pork barrel scam. However, the court convicts Estrada of bribery with a prison sentence...
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    of dollars of pork barrel funding for Alaska, something which Stevens was unapologetic for, once stating "I'm guilty of asking for pork, and I'm proud...
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    Constantino Jaraula and three others, in connection with the ₱10 billion pork barrel scam. Napoles was sentenced to 6 to 10 years imprisonment for each count...
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    said that pork barrel system is unconstitutional. In its landmark decision G.R. No. 208566 the Supreme Court defined that the pork barrel funds are lump...
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  • including business deals between companies and the party, along with pork barrel spending and patronage systems led to finance scandals and corruption...
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    Robert Byrd (redirect from King of Pork)
    money toward projects in West Virginia. Critics derided his efforts as pork barrel spending, while Byrd argued that the many federal projects he worked...
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  • Gender Equality, and Social Services. In 2015, Robes was implicated in pork barrel scam allegations involving him and his wife, Florida. These allegations...
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    Domingo, Ronnel (May 17, 2014). "Andaya, Alcala deny dealings with Napoles in pork scams". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved August 2, 2020. Dinglasan, Rouchelle...
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  • In particular, the term comes from earmarked hogs where, by analogy, pork-barreled legislation would be doled out among members of the local political...
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  • project encountered fierce opposition outside Alaska as a symbol of pork barrel spending and is labeled as one of the more prominent "bridges to nowhere"...
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  • These policymakers logroll to ensure that their district policies and pork barrel packages are put into practice regardless of whether their policies are...
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    enormous power to bring home special projects (sometimes referred to as "pork barrel spending") for their state as well as having the final say on other senators'...
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  • approval. This replaces the traditional pork barrel, the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), after the Pork barrel scam was uncovered in 2013. During...
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    000 pounds of meat were cooked. In 1995, the North Carolina Championship Pork Cook-Off was held in conjunction with the festival, allowing visitors from...
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    Elephants Bridge to nowhere Escalation of commitment (sunk cost fallacy) Pork barrel Abul-Abbas "Home : Oxford English Dictionary". oxforddictionaries.com...
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