Leandro Leviste rejects ‘kickbacks,’ salary, gives out noche buena packs

MANILA, Philippines — Batangas 1st District Representative Leandro Legarda Leviste said on Saturday that he chooses not to accept “kickbacks,” or even his salary as a lawmaker. But he “cannot not donate as it makes other people happy.” This came after he handed out 250,000 noche buena packages, “funded entirely from his own personal resources and at no cost to government.” READ: Prices up among ‘noche buena’ “I choose not to accept kickbacks or even my salary or congressional office budget, but I can’t not donate these Noche Buena packs after seeing how it makes other people happy,” Leviste said in […]...

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