{"id":5646,"date":"2012-07-28T04:32:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T01:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patnubay.org\/?p=5646"},"modified":"2019-06-21T22:46:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T19:46:01","slug":"usa-abs-cbn-says-goodbye-to-umayams-100-outstanding-fil-ams-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/?p=5646","title":{"rendered":"USA: ABS CBN Says Goodbye to Umayam\u2019s 100 Outstanding Fil-Ams Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: \u00a0pinoywatchdog.com<\/a><\/p>\n

By\u00a0Rene Villaroman<\/strong>
\nManaging Editor<\/em><\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES \u2013 In a last minute bid to save itself from a looming scandal, the ABS CBN Foundation, through its President, Robbie Fabian, has announced the foundation is pulling out from the \u2018100 Outstanding Filipino American of the United States Awards, after Ms. Darna Umayam, President of the sponsoring Philippine Children\u2019s Charities, Inc., made an anti Semitic slur against PinoyWatchDog.com\u2019s Senior Columnist Joel Bander.<\/p>\n

Mr. Fabian made the announcement today, July 26, in an e-mail blast to several Fil-Am community media outlets, including PinoyWatchDog.com. Mr. Fabian announced \u201cABS CBN Foundation International has decided to withdraw from its scheduled participation in \u2018100 Outstanding Filipino American dinner sponsored by the Philippine Children\u2019s Charities, Inc. (PCCI) and its founder Ms. Darna Umayam.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Fabian also added that \u201cthe board of directors of the Foundation has concluded today that recent statements made by Ms. Umayam will make it untenable for ABS CBN Foundation International to be part of this initiative. The Foundation regrettably also has decided to decline the planned donation to Bantay Bata.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Umayam, in a scathing email to PWD\u2019s senior columnist, Joel Bander, stated: \u201cYour writers must be ashamed of themselves. They are the talk of the town why??? (sic). \u2026 They must remember that Jew or Hudyo killed Jesus Christ????? Judas Escariot (sic) the apostle who betrayed Jesus is a JEW like you!!!!!!!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ms. Umayam\u2019s anti Semitic statement came on the heels of a series of exposes<\/a> in the last three issues of PWD, which documented various unethical fundraising practices, inconsistent Federal Income Tax returns of her PCCI non-profit organization, and misrepresentation of her resume, claiming that she graduated cum laude from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, but the University\u2019s alumni records manager could not certify that she graduated with that honor.<\/p>\n

PWD first questioned Umayam\u2019s cavalier attitude in its so-called national search for \u2018100 Outstanding Filipino Americans in the United States\u2019 because majority of the honorees came from the Los Angeles area. This newspaper had also criticized the organizer\u2019s policy of asking the prospective honorees to put up a non-refundable entry fee, plus the equivalent of $1000 in ticket and advertising sales as a prerequisite to receiving the award.<\/p>\n

But the most glaring irregularity of all is that only $7500 of an expected $100,000 in gross income would be donated to the Foundation, even though in practice fundraisers like this one are mandated to donate at least from 30 to 50 per cent of the gross.<\/p>\n

PWD\u2019s crusade to unmask the real motive for this fundraiser as early as last month has incurred the ire of Ms. Umayam, who has held many similar fundraising events in the past, with monies raised still not properly and openly accounted. PinoyWatchDog.com also reported in its last issue that PCCI, which Umayam is utilizing as a \u201cpass through\u201d organization for her fundraising efforts, was hijacked from the Kalayaan Independence Day Committee, of which she was the chair in 2009. The non-profit corporation was created and paid for by the organizing committee, but up to the present time, the more than $1000 spent in its creation and incorporation has not been rebated to the organizing committee.<\/p>\n

These events were followed by large scale theft of PinoyWatchDog.com\u2019s in central Los Angeles, Eagle Rock, Glendale and the San Fernando Valley. When PWD\u2019s Bander called on Umayam to make an announcement to her supporters to not steal newspapers, she responded with words of support for the thievery, and the caustic anti-Semitic remarks that has now brought about her downfall.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, July 24, 2012, ABS CBN\u2019s Tina Palma announced she would not be attending the event based on the revelations of the last few weeks and finally the anti-Semitic remarks of Umayam. On Wednesday, July 25, 2012, Umayam sent out an email blast that stated \u201cwant this to be clear: ABS CBN Foundation International is not pulling out of the event. Tina\u2019s decision is a personal one. Gina Lopez is in the States right now attending a seminar and she did not come here for the event. If it is still not yet apparent let me point this out\u2013 the Foundation is \u201ctaking the heat and dealing with it,\u201d more than we should.\u201d<\/p>\n

The PinoyWatchDog.com investigative team has determined that Lopez was indeed planning to come to the event, and the \u2018seminar\u2019 appears completely made up by Umayam.<\/p>\n

PinoyWatchDog.com Executive Editor Al Aquino stated \u201cit\u2019s time for Darna to shut this down and give everyone back their money. I call on the Filipino community to just ask for a refund of this massive folly.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Bander was asked his reaction to the Fabian announcement he said \u201cI just wrote back to Mr. Fabian \u2018wow\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

PinoyWatchDog’s Expose’<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. UST cannot certify Darna Umayam graduated Cum Laude<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Documents show Umayam took money from 2009 Independence Day earnings\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Darna Umayam, do not invoke the name of God to make you look good and PinoyWatchDog bad<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. The show will go on \u2013 Darna Umayam<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Darna Umayam bares some Fil-Am Awards rules<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. ABS-CBN Foundation International President Robbie Fabian Says $7500 is All Umayam Required to Pay<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Source: \u00a0pinoywatchdog.com By\u00a0Rene Villaroman Managing Editor LOS ANGELES \u2013 In a last minute bid to save itself from a looming scandal, the ABS CBN Foundation, through its President, Robbie Fabian, has announced the foundation is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":3189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15,81,17,37],"tags":[84,114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5646"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12208,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions\/12208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}