Jinggoy Estrada

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Jose Pimentel Ejercito Jr. (born February 17, 1963), better known as Jinggoy Estrada or Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, is a Filipino politician and actor serving as a senator since 2022 and previously from 2004 to 2016. He served as president pro tempore of the Senate from 2007 to 2013 and again from 2024 to 2025. He also briefly became the acting Senate President in 2013 after Juan Ponce Enrile's resignation. Before serving in the Senate, he was the vice mayor (1988–1992) and later mayor (1992–2001) of San Juan when it was still a municipality. Estrada has been detained on multiple occasions in connection with corruption cases. In April 2001, he and his father, former president Joseph Estrada, were arrested and charged with plunder following the Second EDSA Revolution. He was released in 2003 and acquitted in 2007. In 2014, he was arrested and detained over the pork barrel scam, where he was accused of receiving ₱183 million in kickbacks. Although acquitted of plunder in 2024, he was initially...

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