DAGUPAN CITY—Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz said the report that jueteng witness Boy Mayor has returned to his old way as operator of this illegal numbers’ game is “one of the biggest jokes I received this week”.

Cruz, chairman of Krusada ng Bayan Laban sa Sugal (KBLS) told this writer that Mayor, who remains under his care after he testified during the Senate jueteng probe, tells him where he is everyday.

Yesterday, Cruz said Mayor told him he was in Bicol.

The prelate added that in one of their meetings last week, Mayor, also a member of the board of director of KBLS, told the board two things:

One, that he had been receiving a number of death threats and, two, that he has been receiving offers from different jueteng operators.

On Mayor’s death threats, Cruz said he himself acted on them by telling the source to stop threatening his ward.

Mayor also told Cruz that he was offered P550,000 a month just to keep silent.

But Cruz said Mayor just laughed this off.

When Mayor was still the operator of jueteng in Pangasinan, Cruz said based on Mayor’s revelation, he was getting a total daily gross collection of P8million where prizes, payolas and salaries of employees have to be taken from.

Cruz said the report about Mayor turning his back on Cruz’ crusade against jueteng is “just a ploy to destroy him”.

“Magandang palabas yan (That’s a good show), Cruz said sarcastically.

But is it a deal, or no deal?, Cruz said, “It’s no deal as far as Boy is
concerned”.—