WIRE — MANILA, Philippines — The lawyer of the 18 men who claimed they were former "bagmen" of an ex-congressman at the center of the public works corruption scandal said he had received a warrant of arrest in connection with the cyberlibel complaint filed by Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. In a Facebook post on Monday,
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