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Nikki airs side on cockfight story.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Manolo R. Inigo
MY longtime friend, former Sen. Nikki Coseteng, whom I have not seen in ages, recently wrote this paper to give her side on a story which wrongly portrayed her as "betting heavily in a cockfight held last Sept. 18 at the Caceres Sports Arena with her own kristos or casadores," bet takers who place, pay and/or collect bets for her.
"I am not and have never been a gambler or a big-time bettor of any sort," said Nikki, whose friendship I have valued since 1985 when she accompanied her son Julian Coseteng, then the Philippine Soap Box Derby junior champion, to Akron, Ohio, where I was the All-American Soap Box Derby director for the Philippines.
In her letter, Coseteng stressed: "I did not have my own kristos or casadores. Your correspondent (Juan Escandor Jr. of the PDI Southern Luzon Bureau) did not even bother to check who were doing the betting and immediately concluded I was. He did not even bother to ...
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