Mindanao Times

Latest story part of the ‘game’

- BY CARMELITO Q. FRANCISCO

THE legal team of Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name has branded as “part of the game” the story that came out about the move of one of Quiboloy’s his co-accused to admit her guilt in the cases in the US, including human traffickin­g, filed against them and several others.

In a press conference Sunday, Hawaii-based lawyer Michael Jay Green, Quiboloy’s main lawyer, questioned the US government in leaking the story about Maria de Leon, one of Quiboloy’s co-accused, who was reported to have admitted guilt over the charges.

“So when I see the government leaking things to make people start to think (that Quiboloy is guilty), what do they really do? Something? To take away the thorn of the presumptio­n of innocence, that is what they do!” said Green.

He said he “cannot just sit back and put this rubbish out.”

He added that by releasing the arrest warrant on Quiboloy, which he branded as the “like the old wild west,” is “part of the game but it is not a funny game.”

Although he said Quiboloy could just ignore these stories, Green

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