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	Estrada gets life for corruption

haraya

9-11-2007 10:07 PM

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news, politics, philippines, president, trial, sentence, corruption, erap

haraya says:

It's especially easy to detect hard-earned wealth vs. stolen wealth (or newly-acquired weath vs. old wealth) in a poor country. It's about time a decision was made on the trial.

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