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List of
Philippines representatives expelled, removed, or suspended
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sentenced Ecleo to thirty years in prison for entering a 1993
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Ruben Ecleo Jr. in 1987 inherited the leadership of the
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221:18–30 years of imprisonment (graft)
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429:on April 25, 2021. He died at the
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475:"Amulets didn't stop bullets"
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