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\nConvicted but never jailed
\nThis transaction involved leasing out two train station terminals at below market rates to a private foundation that she herself put up and headed. Philippine General Hospital Foundation was supposed to raise funds for the state-owned Philippine General Hospital but its hospital director told me then in an interview that PGH never got a cent from PGH Foundation. Mrs. Marcos signed the contract with LRTA on behalf of the foundation even though she was also the LRTA chair.
\nIn 1996, the Supreme Court found Mrs. Marcos \u201cguilty beyond reasonable doubt,\u201d sentenced her to 12 years in jail and fined her the equivalent of the anomalous contract. Dans was acquitted because the Court found \u201cno conspiracy\u201d between him and Mrs. Marcos.
\nAround the same time that the government of Fidel Ramos\u2014the dictator\u2019s second cousin\u2014was prosecuting Mrs. Marcos in court, it was secretly negotiating a deal that only came to light in 1996 when former Solicitor General Frank Chavez asked the Supreme Court to stop it. The deal would have allowed the Marcoses to walk off with 25 percent of all their ill-gotten wealth\u2014here and abroad. Tax-free. In addition, all pending criminal and civil cases against them would be dropped.
\nBut that wasn\u2019t all. Chavez presented a letter dated Jan. 24, 1995, from Mrs. Marcos\u2019 lawyer to Presidential Commission on Good Government chair Magtanggol Gunigundo saying \u201cit is further understood that $50 million will be taken from the top as approved by President Ramos and your
\n(Gunigundo\u2019s) good self.\u201d
\n\u201cWhere will the $50 million taken from the top go?\u201d Chavez demanded to know as he asked to court to permanently bar all compromise deals with the Marcoses.
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