Jinggoy aide escorted Tuason inside Senate

MANILA -- The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee on Thursday showed Ruby Tuason photos of their staff members for her to identify who among them escorted her from the parking lot to the office of Senator Jinggoy Estrada. Tuason, who has admitted delivering pork barrel kickbacks from alleged mastermind Janet Lim Napoles to Estrada, said during the hearing that a staff member would escort her car going in to a garage near the driveway. She said she could be dropped off inside the Senate compound and pass through a separate entrance. She noted that she never used the Senate main entrance since the Senate security might check her bag and see the money. Tuason initially marked a person in a photo from 2010 and told senators that that person "looked like" the one who fetched her. That person then turned out to be a staff member of Estrada. "Ang pangalan na lumalabas Mr. Alfredo Delos Reyes, and I've been informed that he is part of the security of Senator Estrada," said Senator Teofisto "TG" Guingona III, the Blue Ribbon Committee's chairman. Tuason also pointed to another person in one of the photos but his name was not in the roster. Senate security, however, identified that person as a certain Tanny, also an aide of Estrada.