Presidential Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson and Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV gamely posed for a photograph after the Senate hearing on fake news on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017. (Photo by RUEL VILLANUEVA PEREZ / Radyo Inquirer)
Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV will pursue the criminal and administrative cases he filed against Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson, despite a light moment they shared during the Wednesday鈥檚 Senate hearing on fake news.
After the hearing, conducted by the Committee on Public Information and Mass Media, Trillanes and Uson gamely posed for a photograph together.
Earlier, during the hearing, they even engaged in some banter.
搁贰础顿:听Trillanes and Mocha Uson share a light moment at Senate hearing聽
But in a statement, Trillanes said: 鈥淲hile I appreciate the friendly gesture of Ms. Mocha Uson to have a photo taken with me, it doesn鈥檛 change the fact that, as a senior public official, she committed criminal offenses that warranted聽the filing of multiple cases.鈥�
鈥淪a madaling salita, tuloy-tuloy lang ang mga kaso,鈥� he added.
[In other words, the cases will continue.]
The senator filed an administrative case for grave misconduct and six criminal cases, including libel charges, against Uson for spreading fake news about his alleged offshore bank accounts.
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