WIRE — MANILA, Philippines — Former Speaker and Leyte Representative Ferdinand Martin Romualdez called out the Office of the Ombudsman over its continuing efforts to build up plunder and graft cases against him using witnesses that he said were earlier "discredited" by the agency and later by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The same witnesses are now

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