A Facebook (FB) post is claiming that former Justice secretary and senator Leila de Lima has ties to a lawyer disbarred for misusing his clients’ funds. This needs context.
A reader sent a request to VERA Files’ Messenger Misinformation Tipline to verify a Feb. 19 FB post by a blogger. The quote card with de Lima’s photo read:
“Atty. Tecson personally received the funds on his clients’ behalf but only remitted PHP 53 million, keeping the rest as his attorney’s fees and allegedly for the senatorial campaign of former Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.”
The text is from a Feb. 19 Supreme Court (SC) press release detailing the decision to disbar Atty. Demosthenes Tecson for withholding funds that his clients alleged he had misused.
De Lima denied knowing Tecson and wrote to the SC on Feb. 21 demanding a public clarification of the matter and promising to take legal action to “clear her name.”
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