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Tim Garcia, is one of the sons of the infamous General Carlos F. Garcia,former AFP deputy chief of staff for comptrollership who has been under investigation by Ombudsman for corruption and perjury charges. Tim is a Marc Jacob publicist and is under house arrest because of the on-going criminal investigation of his father. Ombudsman believes that the monies Tim used to fund his New York luxurious lifestyle ($750,000 condo, designer clothes, shoes, etc) ay galing sa kaban ng bayan na kinimkim ng kanyang ama.

Read how shallow this Tim is and how convince he is that his father Carlos F. Garcia is innocent…that they’ve been filthy rich this whole time. Ugh.

Perched on a sleek white Armani Casa chair in his apartment in the modern, gilded Trump Plaza at 502 Park Avenue, Garcia is decked in head-to-toe designer: a supple caramel leather Alessandro dell’Acqua jacket, Alexander McQueen jeans, a thin white LnA tee shirt and YSL boots. His wrists are adorned with a big Cartier gold and silver Tank watch, a Cartier Love bracelet, a white enamel Hermes bangle and a $1000 dollar large gold plated spiked Hermes cuff called the Collier de Chien.

I am going to puke! Tseh! Kahit anong mamahaling palamuti ang ilagay mo sa isang baboy, baboy pa rin!

Garcia was arrested as part of a criminal investigation into the business dealings of his father, Major General Carlos F. Garcia, a former comptroller of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. The elder Garcia stands accused of racking up more than 303 million pesos ($6.2 million) of ill-gotten gains, in the form of cash, real estate and other property. General Garcia is not an American citizen and is in jail in the Philippines where the scandal has taken on Imelda Marcos-like proportions in the local press. General Garcia’s wife and their three children (all American citizens), Timothy Mark, Ian Karl, 30, and Juan Paulo, 27 are all facing plunder charges in the Philippines, which carries a penalty of 30 years to life. They are all also subjects to extradition.

To date, Tim’s father has been acquitted for 3 perjury cases out of 4 that’s been filed against him. Grrrrr! Ombudsman, hello? Are you there? Are you blind? What do we expect from Ombudsman anyway? From the first half of 2009, the Office of the Ombudsman has only 11.86 % conviction rate. I just hope that our next president would do a total overhaul of this office.

Tim Garcia recalling his 95-day ordeal in prison…

Imagine yourself being secluded and out of sight and out of mind and being trapped. Imagine living a comfortable lifestyle and than all of a sudden you’re forced to coexist with armed robbers, organized crime people and people who sell drugs. The cream of the criminal crop. They put me with pedophiles. I was trying not to get raped every day. It was scary.” At the same time, Clarita, Garcia’s mother, was also in prison. “That hurt me the most. She’s 60 and to put her in prison in conditions like that is difficult for a son. She was in prison longer than me.

C’mon, you are worst than the so-called armed robbers, organize crime people and druglords. Your father stole millions of pesos from the country from which you gladly partake. From your couture dresses and shoes to your pet’s bed, they are owned by the Filipinos who are working their buns off to survive. Where’s your brain? Your father had a monthly salary of 35,000 pesos, where did he get his millions? How can he afford your filthy lifestyle?

In April, Garcia says he was asked to hand over his “apartment and bank accounts.” He protested. “I knew that it was all bullshit. I was like, ‘No! I will never waver in the conviction of my father’s innocence and doing that would just hurt my father’s case.” The government still contends that some of that $6.2 million dollars went into purchasing the Trump Plaza apartment. The government also says the Garcias transferred $2 million from the Philippines to the United States.

This is all bulls***? Bullsh***in mo mukha mo! While the soldiers risk their lives to defend our country, your father was busy stealing from the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the money that could’ve been used to buy combat boots for the soldiers and not your Sergio Rosi boots. Is that you called bullsh***?

The ankle bracelet limits Garcia’s fashion choices. “I can’t even wear my knee high croc boots by Sergio Rossi for the fall,” he laments. “I had to make adjustments with my wardrobe. When it was hot in the summer, I didn’t want to go to Marc Jacobs wearing shorts. I just felt it was in bad taste.”

I just can’t believe how self-absorbed this guy is. Buti naman at nakakatulog siya ng mahimbing.

Garcia plans to pen a book about his family’s whole ordeal.

Oh yeah? Who’s gonna read it? Perhaps, your bff Bryanboy who’s staying with you now. Birds of the same feathers are birds.

Guys, if you want to puke, read the whole article HERE. Don’t tell me I did not warn you.

You might also want to read this from The Philippine Star:

Monday, April 21, 2008
More of what General and Mrs. Garcia said
GOTCHA By Jarius Bondoc , The Philippine Star, Monday, April 21, 2008

Voluble Clarita D. Garcia wanted back the $100,000 cash that U.S. Customs confiscated from her sons in Dec. 2003. But she felt that she and her husband, AFP Maj. Gen. Carlos F. Garcia, hadn’t explained enough. So on Apr. 6, 2004, she handwrote Customs agent van Dyke (presented as is):

“This statement is in addition to justify how we were able to accumulate the $100,000. As on the papers submitted by my husband, he just showed his income tax return from his earnings, which showed insufficient funds to accumulate the amount brought by our two sons. Aside from my husband’s declared income, he did not mention his other income from his travel and schooling allowances, honorariums and gratuities given to him due to his added duties and functions designated for his position as Major General in the Philippine Armed Forces.

“For example, honorarium benefits: My husband holds different chairmanship and directorship with different Armed Forces institutions and he receives money allowances for every meeting that he attends weekly.

“Travel allowances: As a comptroller, J6 Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Comptrollership, he is a member of the Management Team of Projects. For example: A certain foreign company wins a bidding from the Bids and Awards Committee for selling military hardware. This procurement is approved by the Secretary of National Defense and Office of the President. Then a team committee is formed in the Armed Forces to oversee the implementation of the contract. Since my husband’s office is under the Department of Budget and Management that holds the budget of the whole government, his office is part of the inspection team. In one of the provisions of the contract, a team of committee will oversee the implementation of the contract before, during and after. During the ‘before’ portion of the contract, my husband goes to inspect the site or location of the plant of the contracted party. Then during the ‘during’ portion of the contract, he goes back to the contracted country to see the actual products. During the ‘after’ portion of the contract, he returns to the contracted country to accept the finished product. During these travels, my husband always brings me along and we are each given travel allowances by the proponents/host country. He is also by his office stipend and allowances to be used at his discretion. As a wife, I am also given an envelope as they called ’shopping money’ that I can use for my own discretion, no receipt of how we use the stipends are ever required. Business class airfare/first class accommodations and transportation are provided by the host/proponents and this happens on every trip since 1993 to present. Our meals, purchase of souvenirs and cost of visiting sites are also paid for by our host. As a result, our allowances are not used and we are allowed to keep them. I am unable to provide the exact amount of each stipend/allowances because it varies from country to country we are assigned to visit.

“When my husband is assigned to travel domestically in the Philippine Islands to conduct inspection on different military camps, he is also given stipend/allowances and also often given gratuities.

“With regards to expenses such as salaries for our drivers, security guards, their wages are paid for by the government. My husband’s office is provided with government vehicles, free gasoline, housing allowances and lots of gratuities, gifts received from colleagues. This is again part of the PERKS that my husband receives from holding a key position in the Philippine Armed Forces.

“Also, when he was sent for schooling abroad, his salaries and allowances go to his savings. The counterpart country also gives him stipend and housing allowance. For example: when he took his Master’s Degree at Monterey Post Naval Graduate School, CA 1993-95; for those period he was given allowances from his country and counterpart country. Since I am a license registered nurse in California, I was able to work for two years as a nurse that also contributed to our income. This money was not only accumulated for 1-2 years but this is our accumulated savings for the past years.

“With regards to my income from the resort and orchard that came from my parents inheritance, Philippine laws allow the reporting of income, for the first two years of operation, as a loss. Then even though the corporation made profits since its start of operations, we reported a loss the first two years of operation.

“As an American given or accumulating peso funds, I always change these peso funds to dollar money, including all the profits of our corporations that accumulated through the years.

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Reesie is the author of Off The Top Of My Head. She is a research and IT support-slash-analyst in New Mexico and a Certified COMPTIA A+. She was a college instructor before she works in the US. She enjoys her new found hobby, photography. She is a proud Cebuana from the barrio of Katugasan.