Lacson during his first year as Senator dismissed two members of his staff after he learned that they were engaged corruption using his PDAF fund. This is how Lacson describes the extent of corruption in pork barrel funds: 2 percent goes to the Commission on Audit as SOP 10 percent to the district engineer and other officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways 2 percent to the barangay chairman 14 percent to the contractor 10 percent is the profit and 4 percent as value-added tax 5 percent to 10 percent, if the mayor or governor so demands and 20 percent of project cost for the legislator who identifies the project. There are some lawmakers who are getting 20 and even 35 percent commission from PDAF projects according to Lacson and this is apart from the corruption within the government agency handles the projects. Even if a lawmaker is not getting a commission from contractors of the projects on which the lawmakers pork barrel is spent, there are other avenues to use pork barrel funds for corrupt activities. But he believes that the funds have been a source of corruption. While he acknowledges that there is nothing illegal about the PDAF. In his case, one of the ways he fought personally is refusing to get his share of more than P200 million from the Priority Assistance Development Fund (PDAF)-popularly known as the pork barrel fund. He believes that people should personally do something to fight corruption. Lacson’s anti-corruption advocacy is not only limited to Senate investigations.
Lacson refused to be tainted by pork barrel millions
Lacson’s Textbook scam probe uncovered what most Department of Education (DepEd) officials and journalists monitoring the textbook board have known for decades: That a group of publishers have cornered three-fourths of textbook contracts with DepEd worth billions of pesos. Unfortunately one of witnesses was gunned down by unidentified men after giving detailed accounts. The Jueteng investigation in 2005 also alleged that members of the Arroyo family were getting payoffs from operators of the multi-billion peso illegal numbers game.
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