Pork barrel, or simply pork, is a metaphor for the appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to direct spending...

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...

Church-backed Cebu Coalition Against the Pork Barrel System, the Church People's Alliance Against Pork Barrel, ePIRMA (Empowered People's Initiative and...

of protests in the Philippines calling for the total abolition of the Pork Barrel fund, triggered by public anger over the Priority Development Assistance...

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...

Napoles and Benhur Luy in the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) Pork Barrel scam through agent Catherine Mae "Maya" Santos. He allegedly channeled...

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...

₱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...

restricted to large infrastructure items. The PDAF was commonly called the "pork barrel", and was the subject of much public criticism following exposés on abuses...

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...

Sir Daniel Grian Alexander (born 15 May 1972) is a former politician who was Chief Secretary to the Treasury between 2010 and 2015. He was the Member of...

the Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, otherwise known as the pork barrel scam. JLN Corporation - company of Janet Lim-Napoles. Agri and Economic...

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...

including business deals between companies and the party, along with pork barrel spending and patronage systems led to finance scandals and corruption...

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...

to the Department of Agriculture showed that Ejercito allocated her pork barrel to at least two non-governmental organizations linked to Janet Lim-Napoles...

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...

stance against pork[54] and have worked to eliminate pork from Congress.[citation needed] An early-21st-century example of attempted pork barrel spending was...

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...

approval. This replaces the traditional pork barrel, the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), after the Pork barrel scam was uncovered in 2013. During...

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...

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...

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...

Domingo, Ronnel (May 17, 2014). "Andaya, Alcala deny dealings with Napoles in pork scams". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved August 2, 2020. Dinglasan, Rouchelle...

In particular, the term comes from earmarked hogs where, by analogy, pork-barreled legislation would be doled out among members of the local political...

Elephants Bridge to nowhere Escalation of commitment (sunk cost fallacy) Pork barrel Abul-Abbas "Home : Oxford English Dictionary". oxforddictionaries.com...

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initiated moves for a proper people's initiative or bill against an existing pork barrel system in Philippine government. In 2014, however, Lopez called the Archbishop...

author A. R. F. Webber suggested that the term may have originated as "pork-barrel knocker". Small-scale mining attracted many Afro-Guyanese before and...