The Clintons sure have a lot of friends in jail.
krinton krime klub ping.
Who’s afraid of Mark Jimenez?
A former Manila congressman who served time in US jail for making illegal campaign contribution and tax fraud will be back in Manila tomorrow.
Mark Jimenez, former congressman of Manila’s sixth district, is said to have forgiven all those who have committed “sins” on him while he was a businessman and politician in Manila but would not likely forgive a former Cabinet member.
A source close to Jimenez said “he’s coming back with joy and without great hatred. He will be reunited with his family to makeup for lost time.
Jimenez will fly to Manila via the New York-Seoul-Manila flight at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport about 10:55 a.m. tomorrow. He is expected to be met by former Bulacan Rep. Willie Villarama and Surigao del Sur Rep. Prospero Pichay.
Villarama and Pichay are two of Jimenez’s close colleagues who accompanied him on Dec. 26, 2002 when he was extradited to the US on tax fraud charges.
In a privilege speech at the Lower House in 2002, Jimenez accused former Justice Hernando Perez extorted from him some $2 million in commissions from the $470 million hydroelectric power contract awarded to the Argentine firm Industrias Metalurgicas Pescarmona Sociedad Anonima (Impsa) deal.
The Impsa deal was perfected during the stint of former President Estrada but was stopped when Estrada was ousted in Jan. 21, 2001 by a people’s power revolt now known as Edsa 2.
But Perez, according to Jimenez, asked him on Feb. 13, 2001 some $2 million for the continuation of the implementation of the Impsa deal under the President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo government.
On Feb. 23, 2001, Jimenez said he deposited the amount demanded by Perez in numbered accounts at the Courts Bank in Hong Kong. The Impsa deal pushed through allegedly after the deposit was made.