Luchie Mendoza’s Balita Media Used Illegal Methods to ‘Take Down’ Bander Law Firm
On July 15, 2009, Balita Media Publisher Luchie Mendoza threatened her chief competitor, Asian Journal Publications owner Roger Oriel, that if “if Balita Media is going down” due to numerous and egresses false advertising claims (see http://balita-news.com/news/fil-am-community-news/149-balita-media-owner-luchie-mendoza-threatens-to-destroy-asian-journal-owner-roger-oriel.html), she would ‘take down’ Asian Journal’s lawyers, Bander Law Firm, as the only way to protect her dishonest Balita Media from demise. Asian Journal owner Roger Oriel has confirmed these facts in a declaration filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court. See related stories at http://balita-news.com/news/fil-am-community-news/140-more-gary-escarilla-of-balita-media-lies.html, http://balita-news.com/news/fil-am-community-news/11-undercover-videos-balita-media-sales-manager-gary-escarilla-lies-about-the-newspapers-circulation.html, http://balita-news.com/index.php?start=10, and http://balita-news.com/news/fil-am-community-news/11-undercover-videos-balita-media-sales-manager-gary-escarilla-lies-about-the-newspapers-circulation.html.
Luchie Mendoza’s Balita Media organization then embarked on illegal acts against Attorney Joel Bander to protect her corrupt newspaper.
The web site www.fil-am-attorney-watch.com has reported that “someone working from Attorney James Beirne’s office bribed a Bander Law Firm client with a promise of a free bankruptcy petition to obtain false testimony against Atty. Bander.” The report continues that “In late August 2009, Reynaldo Hinojales was contacted by the office of the counsel of Balita Media, publisher of Weekend Balita, and urged to sign a declaration that he was instructed to lie under oath by Bander Law Firm attorneys relative to a bankruptcy petition.” Click http://fil-am-attorney-watch.com/CommunityAlert/Declaration_of_Reynaldo_Hinojales.php to read the entire story, which has actual copies of the declaration induced by a bribe from Luchie Mendoza’s Balita Media.
However, Balita-news.com own investigation has revealed that Luchie Mendoza’s directed her brother, ‘Ching’ Mendoza, to call Reynaldo Hinojales, and he simply used Attorney Beirne’s fax machine, as Balita Media and Attorney Beirne have joint operations. Luchie Mendoza assigned the task of spreading ‘Tsismis’ – the spread of false rumors, to her brother, being involved in these bribery and perjury crimes. Attorney James Beirne has denied any coordinated involvement in the bribery/perjury scandal.
In September 2009, Luchie Mendoza sent her editor, Rhony Laigo, to Manila to have an Immigration Watchlist order placed on Attorney Joel Bander based on trumped up criminal charges. See http://www.balita-news.com/images/stories/joelbander/rhony-laigo-joel-bander-law.pdf containing Rhony Laigo’s ‘request’ for the hold departure order and go to http://www.philippinestodayus.com/news/metro/joel-bander-acquitted-in-manila-case about the trumped up charges by Balita Media against Attorney Joel Bander.
Balita-news.com had previously reported on widespread corruption at the Philippine Bureau of Immigration and Balita Media’s long relationship with this corrupt agency, http://balita-news.com/news/118-philippine-bureau-of-immigration-helps-make-balita-media-1.html.
Balita-news.com has learned that the standard ‘bribe’ for obtaining such a ‘courtesy’ Watchlisting Order is about $3,000 to $4,000, which would violate both Philippine bribery laws and the Foreign Corrupt Bribery Act of U.S. law. A former investigator for the Philippine National Police considered it ‘unheard’ of for the Bureau of Immigration in 2009 (under the control of corrupt BI Commissioner Marcelino Libanan) to have placed this Watchlisting Order on a trumped up crime that was so old without the payment of a bribe. Luchie Mendoza’s Balita Media orchestrating these events would be yet another serious crime in her attempts to ‘take down’ Bander Law Firm.
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