It's more likely to take the form of special favors or services. Which means that when Erap owes somebody a favor, he is damn well going to make good on it. Even though Jiminez is a relatively new acquaintance, he contributed significant amounts to Erap's political campaign. Let's get the bad news out of the way first. Some have even suggested that he sort of likes it that way, in that the fragmentation and infighting help him maintain control.
Corruption continues to be a major issue.
Erap himself has never been accused of graft or dipping into the trough, which is one reason he gets so angry at reporters for mentioning it all the time. However, his definition of corruption focuses on big time crime and direct kickbacks or bribes. He has a hard time taking subtler instances of influence-peddling or favoritism seriously as being corrupt. Even Jiminez's alleged fraud was pretty lame by Filipino standards. Businessmen here understand that bidding on government projects is a highly politicized process, and that the open invitations to prequalify and bid published so faithfully in all the papers are seldom what they seem.