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Due to mounting public pressure, Quintero would afterwards release a three-page sworn on 30 May revealing the names of the 14 people he claimed to be behind the bribery scheme. The statement was written from his hospital bed in San Juan de Dios
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His legacy is enshrined in what is known as the
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unrestricted by term limits and a proposal filed as a continuation of a previous resolution that narrowly failed to be included in the convention's enabling law that would have called for the convention to adopt a provision barring Marcos or his wife from pursuing public office in the upcoming
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region of the country. His parents were
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Filipinos who fled from the country after the declaration of Martial Law and wrote a book which was to be entitled "The Envelopes of Imelda Marcos." The manuscript was never published. He would later die at the age of 84 in
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