By VERA Files
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A company partly owned by Ang Galing Pinoy party-list Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo recently sold the controversial house in upscale Foster City, California that used to belong to him and his wife Angela for $1.125 million (about P48.49 million).
The five-bedroom beachfront house at 1655 Beach Park Blvd. was sold by the Beachway Limited Liability Company (LLC) – a company Arroyo has admitted being part owner of – and this transaction was reported to the San Mateo County Assessor-Recorder’s Office on March 16.
The property was transferred just last month to Mary Grace Apolinario and Jerome Ngo who appear in the county’s database as “grantees” or buyers. The buyers are owners of the popular restaurant chain “Gerry’s Grill” who, sources said, are good friends of Mikey
The property was transferred to Mary Grace Apolinario and Jerome Ngo who appear in the county’s database as “grantees” or buyers. The buyers are owners of the popular restaurant chain “Gerry’s Grill” who, sources said, are good friends of Mikey.
The San Mateo County Recorder’s Office also shows a transfer tax of $1,237.50 was paid, in the document listed as No. 2011-031097.
The real estate website Zillow reported the sale of the Foster City property at $1.125 million, but its own estimate showed the house was worth $1,003,500.
As of April 1, 2011, however, Beachway LLC’s address is still listed as “1655 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City” in the California Business Records database.
VERA Files sources in California also revealed that although Arroyo has claimed owning at most 40 percent of the company, and therefore was only part owner of the house, visitors to the Foster City property were left without a doubt as to its occupants’ identities.
These sources provided VERA Files a photo of the living room of the house at 1655 Beach Park Blvd. before it was sold. On a side table sat a picture of the young Arroyo couple, while on the wall above the couch hung a painting of former president Gloria Arroyo taking her oath of office on Jan. 20, 2001.
VERA Files texted Beachway LLC manager Antonio Mariano Almeda but received no replies. It also tried calling him, but his cell phone was out of reach.
The house forms part of the evidence listed by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which is accusing Arroyo and his wife Angela of amassing millions of pesos worth of real estate and other property for the years 2004 to 2009, but failing to pay their taxes.
“Despite receipt of substantial amounts of income, as shown by their numerous properties… the Arroyo spouses repeatedly failed to file any Income Tax Return (ITR) and to pay the corresponding taxes due thereon,” the BIR said.
Mikey denied the allegations. In an interview with ABS-CBN News, he said, “I have been dutifully paying my taxes. Everything I own is in my SALN…If ever I haven’t been paying right taxes, I could easily pay penalty, which is under the Constitution. I have been paying right taxes.”
The couple bought the property from a certain George Skyllas in 2006, and mortgaged it twice before finally redeeming it in April 2008.
The deed to the house was in Angela’s name, but the property did not appear in her husband’s Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net worth (SALN) for the years 2007 and 2008 when he was still representative of Pampanga’s second district.
Republic Act No. 6713, or the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees, requires government employees and officials to declare all property, including those in the names of their spouses. Penalties for violating the law range from a fine, suspension or removal from office, to imprisonment or disqualification from holding public office.
Shortly after VERA Files broke the story, Arroyo’s lawyers flew to San Francisco and quietly effected the transfer of ownership of their Foster City house from Angela’s name to that of Beachway LLC (Limited Liability Company).
A statement of information filed by Beachway with the California Secretary of State listed Almeda, Mikey’s former chief of staff, as a “managing member.”
The document did not mention the names of other members or managers. In an interview last year, Almeda declined to name them, saying only, “I’m representing the investors.”
The transfer from Angela to Beachway LLC was recorded in the Assessor’s office on Sept. 18, 2009, less than three weeks after the story came out.
Arroyo denied owning the house in an interview with Winnie Monsod and Arnold Clavio, hosts of the television program Unang Hirit, the day after the story broke on Aug. 31, 2009.
“Stop saying it is my house. It’s a house owned by the Beach Way Company,” Mikey told Monsod and Clavio. “I’m not the sole owner of that. I have friends who co-own it who are part of the corporation.”
He also said it was his “immediate family” that owned somewhere in the range of 20 to 40 percent of the company, but refused to divulge who the other shareholders were.
Arroyo also admitted the Foster City home wasn’t the only property they bought in California. In his 2005 SALN, he listed a house he bought on instalment basis for P49.5 million. Another property, presumably the Foster City property, appears in his 2006 SALN, this time with an acquisition cost of P63.7 million.
“This is a different house already. We sold the house after about five or six months (and we bought another house worth P63 million). Nabenta rin ito (This was also sold). It’s not the Foster City residence,” he said in the same interview.
VERA Files found that the Arroyos bought in September 2005 a 160-square meter three-bedroom, three-bathroom condominium unit at 805 Mendocino Way or the Manors Condominiums in Redwood City, also in San Mateo County, for $900,000 and later sold this in December 2006 for $880,000.
In the TV interview, Arroyo did acknowledge that his net worth leapt from P5 million in 2002 when he was vice-governor of Pampanga, to P76 million by the time he was elected to Congress.
He attributed the increase to the gifts he and his wife received when they got married in 2002. It was also the campaign season, he said, and that he had good investments at the time.
“Siyempre unang una, kinasal tayo. Medyo nagkaroon tayo ng maraming regalo. Tapos pag kampanya, siyempre kahit paano maraming tumutulong sa atin (Of course, first I got married. We received a lot of gifts. Then during campaigns, somehow we get contributions),” Mikey explained.
A follow-up story by VERA Files found that Arroyo failed to declare any campaign contributions when he ran for representative of Pampanga’s second district in 2004 and 2007. He used to occupy the congressional seat that his mother now holds.
Arroyo corrected himself after the follow-up story came out, saying he did not use campaign contributions.
Arroyo’s lawyer Ruy Rondain also explained the rise in Arroyo’s networth by saying that Angela was a wealthy woman when Mikey married her. He further said Arroyo had declared his wife’s assets in his supplemental SALN in 2002, the year they wed.
But another follow-up story by VERA Files showed that neither the Office of the Ombudsman nor the Pampanga provincial capitol has a copy the supplemental SALN, raising questions of whether he ever filed it—Ellen Tordesillas, Avigail Olarte, Yvonne Chua and Luz Rimban
ang sabi ni Mickey hindi nila bahay…ano naman ang sabi nitong Mary Grace apolinario and Jerome Ngo? kanila ba? binili ba nila? kanino nila binili? let’s grill them hindi lang well done but cremated pa!
ang sabi ni Mickey hindi nila bahay…ano naman ang sabi nitong Mary Grace apolinario and Jerome Ngo? kanila ba? binili ba nila? kanino nila binili? let’s grill them hindi lang well done but cremated pa!
Ellen: this is off topic but can’t help sharing it with your readers if they may…these two retired soldiers will fight each others in this coming May 2nd elections, both Officers, one an incumbent, the other a challenger…and yes, they retired from service to serve once more, with nary an issue like some of the AFP officers and they remain True even with their campaign…
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/972316–former-commander-gunning-for-safe-tory-seat
OTTAWA—Karen McCrimmon has launched a land war for votes, with an arsenal of signs and an army of door-knocking volunteers.
Her objective: beat incumbent Conservative Gordon O’Connor, a retired brigadier general, in the Ottawa riding of Carleton-Mississippi Mills.
Though she profoundly disagrees with the direction of the Harper government, McCrimmon says she wants to run a campaign that sticks to the issues.
“I’m not going to go negative. I don’t believe in it. The man wore a uniform. He served his country. Full stop,” she said. “But there are things that need to be done in this community. This community needs an advocate. It needs an ally.”
In other words, McCrimmon is still a soldier. She’s just in a different army and starting her fight from a political foxhole.
In a few weeks, the pilot who made headlines for becoming the Canadian Forces’ first female air navigator in 1982 before going on to command a fleet of C-130 Hercules aircraft as head of CFB Trenton’s 429 Transport Squadron in 1998 will find out just how well-honed her tactical skills have held up since retiring as a lieutenant-colonel in 2006.
On paper it sounds plausible, but so do most political battle plans
thanks,
Nakaw na pera din nina Mikey ang pinambili dyan, another dummy.
Solid evidence ang pagkakabenta ni Mikey na kanya nga ang bahay sa Foster city. Ligot este lagot ka talaga!
Si Mikey ba (at asawa) ang nasa photo atop the corner table?
Kamukha nya. Huling-huli ang gago sa pagtanggi na kanya ang bahay.
from now on, hindi na ko kakain sa Gerry’s Grill.
Minsan ay kumain kami sa Gerry’s Grill sa Union City, California. Dahil may bisita na bagong immigrant. akalain nyong ang na order na pagkain ng bisita namin na si Mrs. Aurora Datu from Georgia ay may bubog. Nag-complain kami at lumabas ang manager. Sa takot ng manager na baka dalhin namin sa media ay ayaw niya kaming pagbayarin sa kinain namin. Sabi ko no, we will pay. But the manager insist and he offered a 50% discount or kalahati na lang ang babayaran namin. Kung alam ko lang na ang may ari pala ng Gerry’s Grill ay kadikit pala ng mandarambong ng yaman or kaban ng bansa ay dinala ko ang pangyayari tungkol sa pagkaing may bubog sa proper authority.
Note: Refer to the property reports recorded documents.
Placer Title Co
Prepared On : 04/11/2011
2011 CoreLogic. All rights reserved
Sales History
Rec. Date : 03/16/2011 09/18/2009 08/23/2006 08/23/2006
Sale Date : 01/05/2011 10/29/2007 08/18/2006 08/10/2006
Sale Price : $1,125,090.91 $1,320,000
Rec.Doc.No : 31097 125647 126985 126984
Doc. Type : Grant Deed Grant Deed Interspousal
Deed Transfer
Grant Deed
Sale Price Type : Full Unknown Partial Full
Multi/Split Sale :
Buyer : Apolinario Mary
G
Beachway Llc Montenegro
Angela A
Montenegro
Angela A
Seller : Beachway Llc Montenegro
Angela A
Arroyo Juan M Skyllas George
Title Company : Alliance Title Co Alliance Title Co Alliance Title Co
Other Doc No. :
————— – – —————————————————————————————————————————
Rec. Date : 03/10/2006 03/10/2006 03/10/2006 01/29/1990
Sale Date : 03/08/2006 02/22/2006 02/22/2006
Sale Price : $925,000
Rec.Doc.No : 35185 35184 35183 13407
Doc. Type : Interspousal
Deed Transfer
Grant Deed Affidavit Deed (reg)
Sale Price Type : Partial Unknown Partial Full
Multi/Split Sale :
Buyer : Skyllas George Skyllas George Borel Private
Bank & Trust Co
Horsman Family
Trust
Seller : Skyllas Julie Horsman Family
Trust
Horsman Jack
W
Title Company : First American
Title
First American
Title
First American
Title
Other Doc No. :
————— – – —————————————————————————————————————————
Note: Refer to the property reports recorded documents.
Placer Title Co
Prepared On : 04/11/2011
2011 CoreLogic. All rights reserved
Mortgage History
1st Mortgage Details
Mtg. Date : 08/23/2006 03/10/2006
Mtg. Amt. : $858,000 $740,000
Doc. Type :
Loan Type : Conventional Conventional
Mtg. Rate Type : Adjustable Int
Rate Loan
Adjustable Int
Rate Loan
Mtg. Term : 30 Years 30 Years
Mtg. Rate : 6.88 7.38
Lender : Residential Mtg
Cap
First Nat’l Bk/az
Borrower 1 : Montenegro
Angela A
Skyllas George
Borrower Vesting :
Borrower 2 :
Borrower 3 :
Borrower 4 :
2nd Mortgage Details
2nd Mtg. Date : 08/23/2006 03/10/2006
2nd Mtg. Amt. : $198,000 $185,000
Doc. Type :
Loan Type : CONVENTIONAL CONVENTIONAL
2nd Mtg. Rate
Type :
2nd Mtg. Term : 15 Years 25 Years
2nd Mtg. Rate :
Lender : Residential Mtg
Cap
First Nat’l Bk/az
Borrower 1 : Montenegro
Angela A
Skyllas George
Borrower Vesting :
Borrower 2 :
Borrower 3 :
Borrower 4 :
Si Mikey ba (at asawa) ang nasa photo atop the corner table? – chi
Tignan mo kung sino yung nasa malaking painting sa ibabaw ng sofa. Kung meron kang P200 bill, i-compare mo.
Sorry na click ko agad ang submit at hindi ko nalagyan na paliwanag kung saan galing ang document na ito. Ipinasa sa akin ito ng isang realtor dito sa Bay area California.
Salamat, Jojo. That’s the same document that’s the basis of our story. There were other documents we were able to obtain. That’s good thing about the United States. Access to information is easy and efficient. Hindi ka duduguin bago makuha ang public documents. Hindi katulad dito sa atin, pahirapan. That’s why the Freedom to Information Act should be passed.
From that initial info, we followed up more tips and learned that Grace Apolinario and Jerome Ngo are owners of Gerry’s Grill.
We are very thankful for the picture that a concerned citizen sent us.
from now on i am avoiding gerry’s grill like a plague. the friend of my enemy is my enemy. i enjoin other loyal customers of gerry’s grill to do the same.
gerry’s grill bye bye
dapat iwasan natin yang mga nag support sa mga corrupt officials– boycott gerry grill and i am not eating there
#11. Oo nga no! Hindi pa ako nakakita ng P200 bill pero yung nanay pala yun. 🙂
Consumer Power is a strong driving force for change, isn’t it?
A new form of People Power..long dormant and un-utilized.
And it costs practically nothing to harness.
Naguguluhan akong basahin yang post ni Jojo. Paki bigay na lang yung link.
I know it was George Skyllas the restauranteur who sold the property to the Arroyos.
Dito sa presentation na ito parang ang nagbenta ay si Julie Skyllas kay George Skyllas at Angela Montenegro.
We should research who owns the LLC and who financed the mortgage if any. Binili ng cash (galing saan?), tapos ibinenta. Was there any loan on the recent purchase? Who was the mortgage company? Ganyan ang operations ng Mafia. Nakaw na pera ininvest sa legitimate business and then later kinukuha ang pinagbilhan ng nalegitimize na cash proceeds.
Baka naman business partners ni Mikey ang mga Gerry’s grill owners. Wrong timing sila. Babagsak talaga ang business nila!
I don’t know, Mikee might just be the tip of the iceberg, maybe this is a common practice by politicians already? What if both opposition and administration allies are guilty of this? Mikee is not so smart, he isn’t capable of original ideas, I’m pretty sure “nangongopya lang yan.”
# 6
Chi, kalaban daw nila ang naglagay ng pictures nila dun sa bayan na yun. Di mo ba napansin yung naka sabit sa wall, ang dakilang ina ni Mikey nag0-oath taking. 😛
Ay may nag photoshop lang daw. 😛
# 21
Jug, lahat naman sila merong secret bank accounts and loots they stoled stashed away somewhere. Sabi nga ni Erap: “weder, weder lang yan.” 🙂
#’s 8, 14, 15: Next week you drive-by or walk-by that resto; may sign na yan: “New Management”. Don’t be fooled, wink! wink!
Not sure if this is the same resto owned by a former cop in Pinas, it sounds like.
mga bobo lang daw ang nahuhuli.
norpil, let’s wait and see kung bobo din ang nanay at tatay.
“Mikey: Nothing wrong with US property sale”
“The article referred to a sale made by Beachway Corporation, a company which I have personal stake, of a property in the US. What is wrong with that? The sale was made in an ordinary course of business as our company is engaged in the buying and selling of real estate properties. It is but perfectly normal that we sell properties, otherwise we go out of business,” the eldest son of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said.
“Arroyo said the VERA Files story “only confirms there is ongoing vilification campaign against me and my family. This is yet another attempt to make an issue when there is absolutely none.”
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A friend pointed this item to me and said: “Why is Mikey Arroyo helping Vera files verify his lies? Now many journalists even in the US will verify the volume of business of Beachway Corporation had this year and even during the last few years. Small volume or no business at all can prove he is a liar and Beachway just a shell of a corporation.”
#14 romyman
Mine will be to say it this way: “The friend of my people and my country’s enemy is also my enemy.” People then should boycott and refrain from patronizing Gerry’s Grill.
Foster home..bahay ampunan..hindi kanya pero he is going to sell it…hindi kanya daw? di ninanakaw niya sa may ari? what ever and however he says it..nakaw pa din…
…wala kaming Gerry’s Grill dito…kahit anong sarap ang pagkain sa Gerry’s grill…don’t patronize it..huwag ng mag contribute sa yaman ng mga Arroyo…marami na silang nakuha sa mga tao…ano ang karneng ginagamit? horse meat? or baboy? grill gerry! isugba ng very well done…cremated!
Sorry Ellen, off topic
Sorry Coccoy and true blue, my mediocre habits die hard
Not being Wilhelm, Guillermo, or William Shake the Spear
I can’t help the margins. This time only. Hopefully.
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Ellen T’s bloggers came from the backwaters of frail democracy.
They constitute heretofore the stymied backwash of abuses
Forcefully they now forge the backlash of suppressed majority
Tthe uncontrolled, unbridled and unedited voices of what is right.
Ellen T’s bloggers
More than witnesses they can suggest what to investigate
More than the police they can report hidden fates
More than the priests they can preach to boycott the cheats
More than nationals they can be everywhere fighting
When weblog is mightiest than pen,
mightier than the sword
I will be proud to say we Pinoys, WE BLOG.
“Arroyo said the VERA Files story “only confirms there is ongoing vilification campaign against me and my family. This is yet another attempt to make an issue when there is absolutely none.”
Yeah right, idjiiit! Peborit ulit ng mga Arroyo si Ellen, 🙂
At tsaka VERA Files storIES, hindi story lang! Hoy, Mikey…basahin mo mga links provided here at Ellenville, wala kang kawala!
Saan kaya galing ang perang pinambili niyan. Ibang klase talaga sila. Sosyal.
Aminin na nila na sa kanila iyan. Tutal hindi naman sila papaniwalaan kung mag deny.
hahaha, #33 arvin! Pareho din naman no?
Chi, kalaban daw nila ang naglagay ng pictures nila dun sa bayan na yun. Di mo ba napansin yung naka sabit sa wall, ang dakilang ina ni Mikey nag0-oath taking.
Ay may nag photoshop lang daw.
They cannot deny that the living room picture above and that in http://www.ewalk.com/tour.cgi?id=1655#phototop are the same. The 360-degree shot in ewalk will confirm it. Notice the wall-mounted lampholder atop the sofa and near the corner in the first picture above? (Click to enlarge) Compare the height and distance to corner of that lampholder. The 2-seater sofa, though re-upholstered, is still the same furniture.
It’s the same living room.
Sino ba ang gago na maglalagay ng mga photos nila sa hindi nila bahay? Itong bakulaw na Mikey kung magsinungaling ‘kala nya lahat ng tao tanga na tulad nya!
Sino ba ang gago na maglalagay ng mga photos nila sa hindi nila bahay?-Chi
Sino pa, eh ‘di si Mikey !! Certifiable GAGO ang idiot na iyan !!!
Compare the height and distance to corner of that lampholder-Tongue
Nakita ko rin yoong “height”. Si Gloria lang ang may height na ganoon (he-he-he). Teka, anong height ba ang pinag-uusapan natin (he-he-he-he)?
#36, Tongue, manila Standard last Tuesday ran a picture of a house blessing of another house by Mikey, presumably in the US, and captioned it 1655 Beach Park Blvd.
Wrong. It’s not the same house.
We also have those photos but we didn’t release it because we are still trying to ascertain which Mikey Arroyo property it is.
Definitely it’s not the San Francisco house.
Most houses in the US have the kitchen as the central room. Which is true in the case of 1655 Beach Park. The Standard photo has the kitchen in the farthest corner, typically, a Pinoy house. Unless the blessed house underwent major-major renovation, these houses are not the same.