House probe: Roque ‘effectively’ lawyered for POGO

Harry Roque, a former human rights lawyer and spokesperson of former president Rodrigo Duterte, would recite a bunch of legal terms in one breath, and would often say that had he been a lawyer for the Lucky South 99 POGO (Philippine offshore gaming operator), he would have easily quashed the search warrant against it.

But he would also say, with so much legalese, that he is, and never was, a lawyer for the POGO.

“Roque was lawyering for Whirlwind company, but the effect, the implication of lawyering for this company...