Mangio maculated
A carefully-cultivated immaculate image of saintliness, high integrity, professionalism and corporate success gets suddenly spattered with the muck of fraud, falsification, and tax evasion.
What has Nestor Mangio – once top headman of all Philippine architects, brilliant developer of uppity Lakeshore estate, newly-designated chair of the Clark International Airport Corporation – done to deserve this malignity?
And what has Marionette, his beloved wife and fellow servant-leader of a Couples-for-Christ type ministry, done to merit this same sordid maculation?
Ah, what pain and suffering await men and women of good will! Ah, what agonies God gives his beloved!
A conspiracy with Lorna Salangsang-Dee, register of deeds, and her deputy Enrique Basa, defrauding the government of some P68 million in taxes screamed the allegation that predicated the complaint against the Mangios before the Ombudsman – on the criminal aspect, and the Land Registration Authority – on the administrative part.
Sometime in early 2004, parcels of land contiguous to the Lakeshore development site in Mexico town were transferred to the name of the Mangio couple, the registration signed by Dee, the deed of sale signed by both Mangios as buyers and Robert David as seller, and duly notarized by one Atty. Crescente Caladiao of the City of San Fernando, Pampanga on February 2, 2004.
What transpired was the usual, regular process in the conveyance of a real property from seller to buyer. So what’s irregular, moreso criminal, here?
Everything. So claimed the complainant, Robert David, once Pampanga board member now aspiring to the city council of San Fernando and the acknowledged broker of the SM Pampanga and Robinsons Starmills mega land deals.
David claimed that his signature was forged in the 2004 deed of sale – a meritorious statement given the fact that he was out of the country at the time of the consummation of the alleged sale.
A certification from the Bureau of Immigration, signed by one Elias Olasiman, affirms David’s contention: He left the country through the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on PR307 through Hongkong for the USA on August 10, 2003 and returned on board NWO19 through Narita from San Francisco only on March 3, 2004.
Unless David has been gifted with the power of bi-location – reserved only to special saints – his signing the deed of sale in the City of San Fernando in 2004 is an impossibility. It is verily outside the human domain. It could only be an act of God, if not a scheme of the Devil.
Cognizant of Mangio’s haloed character – the effect of the transference of the transcendence of John Paul II in all those photo ops the architect had with the sainted pope – we can only take his word as gospel truth.
So it is David then who speaks with a forked tongue?
David did indeed sign the deed of sale here, even if he claimed – and the BI affirmed – that he was out of the country at the time. For there is nothing impossible with God.
There was irregularity too in the notarization of the deed of sale, cried David.
Atty. Caladiao “was not a commissioned Notary Public for the year 2004 for and in the City of San Fernando” certified Atty. Marlyds L. Estardo-Teodoro, acting clerk of court of the Regional Trial Court, Third Judicial Region, City of San Fernando, Pampanga.
Some notoriety in the notary, eh? Just can’t resist some pun there.
An unauthorized notary notarizing a deed of sale: a misdeed, in human terms. But, again, given Mangio’s saintly circumstances, this may well be God working in His usual mysterious ways.
Okay, infidels, is not Mangio, being a man of God, deserving of all the support from Him? The worker in the vineyard of the Lord deserves his pay, so the Good Book says. To that, we believers can only ejaculate “Amen.”
What most appropriate time than this Holy Week for the passion of Mangio to unfold. Mangio Agonistes. Ah, truly blessed his he who shares the suffering of the Lord.
For as He Himself promised at the cross – “You shall be with me in Paradise.” Oops, teka lang. Di ba magnanakaw ang pinagsabihan nun?
What has Nestor Mangio – once top headman of all Philippine architects, brilliant developer of uppity Lakeshore estate, newly-designated chair of the Clark International Airport Corporation – done to deserve this malignity?
And what has Marionette, his beloved wife and fellow servant-leader of a Couples-for-Christ type ministry, done to merit this same sordid maculation?
Ah, what pain and suffering await men and women of good will! Ah, what agonies God gives his beloved!
A conspiracy with Lorna Salangsang-Dee, register of deeds, and her deputy Enrique Basa, defrauding the government of some P68 million in taxes screamed the allegation that predicated the complaint against the Mangios before the Ombudsman – on the criminal aspect, and the Land Registration Authority – on the administrative part.
Sometime in early 2004, parcels of land contiguous to the Lakeshore development site in Mexico town were transferred to the name of the Mangio couple, the registration signed by Dee, the deed of sale signed by both Mangios as buyers and Robert David as seller, and duly notarized by one Atty. Crescente Caladiao of the City of San Fernando, Pampanga on February 2, 2004.
What transpired was the usual, regular process in the conveyance of a real property from seller to buyer. So what’s irregular, moreso criminal, here?
Everything. So claimed the complainant, Robert David, once Pampanga board member now aspiring to the city council of San Fernando and the acknowledged broker of the SM Pampanga and Robinsons Starmills mega land deals.
David claimed that his signature was forged in the 2004 deed of sale – a meritorious statement given the fact that he was out of the country at the time of the consummation of the alleged sale.
A certification from the Bureau of Immigration, signed by one Elias Olasiman, affirms David’s contention: He left the country through the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on PR307 through Hongkong for the USA on August 10, 2003 and returned on board NWO19 through Narita from San Francisco only on March 3, 2004.
Unless David has been gifted with the power of bi-location – reserved only to special saints – his signing the deed of sale in the City of San Fernando in 2004 is an impossibility. It is verily outside the human domain. It could only be an act of God, if not a scheme of the Devil.
Cognizant of Mangio’s haloed character – the effect of the transference of the transcendence of John Paul II in all those photo ops the architect had with the sainted pope – we can only take his word as gospel truth.
So it is David then who speaks with a forked tongue?
David did indeed sign the deed of sale here, even if he claimed – and the BI affirmed – that he was out of the country at the time. For there is nothing impossible with God.
There was irregularity too in the notarization of the deed of sale, cried David.
Atty. Caladiao “was not a commissioned Notary Public for the year 2004 for and in the City of San Fernando” certified Atty. Marlyds L. Estardo-Teodoro, acting clerk of court of the Regional Trial Court, Third Judicial Region, City of San Fernando, Pampanga.
Some notoriety in the notary, eh? Just can’t resist some pun there.
An unauthorized notary notarizing a deed of sale: a misdeed, in human terms. But, again, given Mangio’s saintly circumstances, this may well be God working in His usual mysterious ways.
Okay, infidels, is not Mangio, being a man of God, deserving of all the support from Him? The worker in the vineyard of the Lord deserves his pay, so the Good Book says. To that, we believers can only ejaculate “Amen.”
What most appropriate time than this Holy Week for the passion of Mangio to unfold. Mangio Agonistes. Ah, truly blessed his he who shares the suffering of the Lord.
For as He Himself promised at the cross – “You shall be with me in Paradise.” Oops, teka lang. Di ba magnanakaw ang pinagsabihan nun?
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