Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, April 20, 1990 TAG: 9004200797
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A/4 EDITION: EVENING
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEW YORK LENGTH: Short
The expenditures between 1979 and 1984 were entered by hand into seven stenographer notebooks kept by Fe Roa Jimenez, the personal secretary for the former Philippines first lady.
The notebooks, entered as evidence Tuesday but not examined by reporters until Thursday, were found in Manila's Malacanang Palace in 1986 after Ferdinand Marcos was ousted as president and the Marcoses fled to Hawaii.
Marcos, 60, is on trial on charges she and her late husband bought four New York properties and financed a lavish lifestyle between 1981 and 1983 with more than $160 million allegedly embezzled from their homeland's treasury.
She has pleaded innocent to charges of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, mail fraud and obstruction of justice. She is on trial in U.S. District Court with Saudi financier Adnan Khashoggi, who is accused of helping the Marcoses conceal their ownership of the real estate.
Marcos, who also was charged in the 1988 indictment, died last September in exile in Hawaii.
Many entries in the secretary's notebooks were for jewelry purchases, such as $200,000 for a diamond bracelet and $360,000 for antique jewelry. Additional notations described an "emerald and diamond and ruby bead necklace," "gold heart earrings" and "carved emerald bead necklace."
The biggest single expenditure during a May 1983 trip was the $1 million toward the unidentified Michelangelo painting.
by CNB