Tag: Paul Jones

Letter of Court Administrator Midas Marquez to Malaya re Wikileaks report on SC justices and Mariano Nocom.

I’ve been trying to call Edu Manzano, former chairman of the Optical Media Board, who was the source of former US Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Paul Jones in his report about Supreme Court justices giving protection to businessman Mariano Nocom, in whose malls many pirated goods are sold.

This was in his Sept. 2006 cable which was one of those recently released by Wikileaks website.

I didn’t get a response to my text messages to Edu. I was told he is out of the country. Maybe he does not want to be disturbed.

The reason why I was calling Edu was because a friend in the Supreme Court told me that true, Nocom has protectors in the High Court, but as far as he knows it is not former Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban.