In the post before this, we revealed just how much of a little lying, thieving bitch 1Pacman Party List Representative Michael "Mikee" L. Romero is how he covers it up by paying publicists millions of pesos of his dad's money to portray him as an alpha male sportsman.
Nothing could be further from the truth!
Really! What kind of man steals from his own father and after getting found out, pays dozens of armed henchmen to takeover the premises of a business his father owns?
If Mikee actually had a set of balls fully grown, he would have done the right thing and stood on his own two feet, establishing a company without any of his father's money or influence. However, being the beta-male (one whose balls have not fully matured), he rode his dad's coat tails like a dog on a horny bitch in heat.
Mikee managed to talk his father into Assigning him as the CEO of HCPTI (probably begging for it like a petulant little brat that he is) and his father reluctantly gave in, probably after being wracked by a mixture of guilt as well as a genuine desire to give his son a good life.
But, instead of doing good with the rare privilege given to him, Mike used his position as CEO of HCPTI to spend the company's resources capriciously. Instead of fully and accurately reporting the company's earnings, he told his father that it was barely making profit - when in reality he was pocketing a large percentage of the company's earnings to spend on a lavish lifestyle.
In other words, Mikee stole from the company's investors, which included his own father then used the money to buy a luxury jet, polo horses, fly in polo players for a tournament, and other such things that had nothing to do with HCPTI's business.
One wonders what Mike's wife, Sheila Bermudez, and their four children would think if they found out that the money he was lavishing on them was stolen from his father?
If he had married a good, pious woman, we would presume that Sheila would give him hell for it and throw him out of the house, demanding that he make amends for violating the eighth commandment before even thinking of coming back.
We honestly can not think that Sheila could be anything other than good and pious. Especially considering that Mike says that they go to the Vatican in Rome every year!
From: www.philstar.com/starweek-magazine/2013/03/17/mikee-romero-new-face-philippine-sports
"I pray a lot to win the game. We (brother Mike and Nikki) have been raised by my mother in the ways of the faithful. We were taught to pray and go to mass. Every year possible, my wife Sheila and I bring our four kids on a pilgrimage to Rome, "adds Romero.
But Sheila is not the only woman in Mike's life, what would a shit ton of bricks if she found out that he stole hundreds of millions from his dad! Perhaps his mom, Olivia Lagman, would walk on her hands and knees in Baclaran Church so that God would forgive her son!
Such is the love of a mother for her son!
Moving on ... If news of Mike's thievery has not resulted in newspapers screaming of a high society marriage breaking up, we can only assume that Mike and Sheila are still very much together.
What a forgiving woman! How else can one explain why she chooses to be with a man accused of stealing hundreds of millions of pesos?
Unless, of course, she's part of the reason or THE VERY REASON why Mike has committed such grievous acts against his own father.
According to the stories that some people told us over the weekend, Sheila seems to be a cunning and devious woman.
Sheila is the daughter of Fred and Marlyn Bermudez, a power couple at the height of the Marcos regime. The cornering Bermudezes grew wealthy from government construction projects and used to live lavishly in Ayala Alabang. They even sent Sheila and her siblings to study in De La Salle Zobel who was near their home.
When the Marcos fell from power, the Bermudezes like other cronies, fell into hard times. Their business went bankrupt because the only reason why they were able to get government-funded construction projects was because of their connection to the Marcos and the kickbacks they gave them.
Other people in the circumstances faced by the Bermudezes would wisely have cut back on their extravagant lifestyle, but they did not and all their millions ran out until they were forced to sell their home Ayala Alabang.
They moved into a less prestigious address in Ortigas, moving from a grand mansion to a humble rented apartment.
Sheila was still in college at that time, a saving grace considering that her father was so hard up that he struggled to pay their apartment's monthly rent.
It was around that time that Mike met Sheila.
We are not completely sure as to how they met and we can only imagine the circumstances that led to their first meeting.
There was Mike, the 19 year old spoiled son of a billionaire who probably still had not been in intimate contact with a woman other than his mother. Then there was this pretty, college girl reeling from her family's fall from grace and missing the high society life she had been raised in.
What does a girl do? Hmmmm .... I'll let your imagination fill in the rest.
Anyway, soon after their meeting, it seems Mike suddenly started paying for Sheila's parents rent and then some!
Now, what on earth would compel a guy like Mike, to start supporting Sheila's parents in such a manner?
Did Sheila Mike's parents catch with his pants down? Did he accidentally put a bun in the oven's Sheila? Was there some manner of shotgun wedding involved?
Then again, there's that often quoted advice to young men, "You do not have to buy the cow if you can get the milk for free."
Only, however, the milk was never free from the start.
We do not really know why Mike started paying rent Sheila's parents, but after some time, he also started giving them a generous allowance.
Getting an allowance from a man barely into his 20s should have been enough for Freddie and Marlyn Bermudez, but it was not.
It seems Mike had married into the Thernadiers - those scoundrel antagonists in Les Misérables.
Sheila's parents borrowed and borrowed and borrowed unashamedly from Mikee's parents, and Lilibeth Reghis Romero. (Not a single centavo to date has been the Romeros for these loans.)
When Mike's parents got tired of loaning money to Mikee's in-laws, and Marylyn Freddie started borrowing money from friends of Mike's parents.
Of course, unlike Mike's parents, the people demanded they borrowed from some manner of security or assurance of payment in the form of post dated checks. Of course, the couple Bermudez complied with the requirement and issued post dated checks.
Everything went well for the Bermudezes ... Up until all the post dated checks started bouncing and people started hauling them to court for fraud as well as violations of the anti-bouncing check law.
At one point, the people owed money Sheila's parents asked help from Mike's parents to recover their money - not knowing that Mike's parents were victims of the Bermudezes as well.
We spent a bit of time yesterday hanging around coffee shops as well as a hotel near the Green Meadows area and we were quite surprised to hear people talking about the matter discussed in the previous blog post.
At first we hoped that at least one or two people would express some sympathy for the couple, but were disappointed. You see, listening in on such conversations help us check if the people we've trained our crosshairs on deserve the treatment we are giving them.
Suffice it to say, there was only contempt for the couple. People apparently think they deserve a dose of bad karma and then some!
And a rather posh hotel bar, one person even said, "Mike is an asshole and Sheila is a gold digging bitch just like her mother-in-law, Olivia!"
Of course, we did not immediately get why Sheila would be compared to Olivia Lagman. Thankfully one of our readers left a comment explaining the connection:
eh si sheila's mom and mike that olivia lagman both gold digger.
"Reghis and Olivia first met in Manila sometime in 1971 when the former helped the latter out and her family from being stranded along Kennon Road.
Since that day, Reghis became a close friend of the family Lagman and a frequent guest at its gatherings.
Reghis Lagman later realized that the spouses were trying to match their daughter to him.
Then he courted Olivia until the casual acquaintanceship developed into a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. "- Http://philippinetimesofsouthernnevada.com/
When one of our researchers read the comment, she blurted out, "Olivia's parents matching up with their daughter Reghis? Maybe binugaw Reghis with that!"
If that is true, then Reghis had it better than Mike.
We say this because we heard that Sheila's parents forced to marry Sheila Mikee, but we are not certain if this happened before or after Sheila got pregnant with her first daughter. Of course, it would make sense if Mike Sheila got pregnant and then married her in order to avoid being the subject of high society scandal tongue wagging, "Que horror! The son of Freddie and Marlyn, DISGRASYADA!"
Anyway, all that is in the past now and it seems that Mike has done quite well to keep Sheila ... .. happy with her dad's money.
Unlike most young wives in this country who must bear with whatever her husband can provide, Sheila did not have to bother learning how to make do.
Mike's dad was rich after all!
We do not know if Reghis grumbled about shouldering his married son's household expenses on top of the living expenses of his in-laws. But we would understand if ever he rebuked Mikee and said, "Who exactly was it that Sheila got pregnant? Was it me ?! Why am I spending for her and your kid?"
And if you think that Reghis shouldering his son's household expenses was the end of it, think again!
Sheila, being that she is a socialite, demanded that Mikee help her maintain the "high" stature she had among her high society friends. We do not know why, but Sheila apparently thought that being a restauranteur would do the trick - poorer women would probably open a cafe, one that's open to all!
Perhaps it was a mixture of love and guilt over Sheila knocking up that drove Mike to give in to Sheila's demands.
So, he asked money from his dad to set up a high end restaurant in a posh section of Makati City's Salcedo Village and that's how Sheila Romero Bermudez got her label "restaurateur".
The opening of the restaurant called Azzuro Bistro was widely publicized and feted by Sheila's high society friends in 2001.
It seemed that Azzuro was set up for success! After all, it was in a prime location and even had the famous British chef Philip Golding as its plus the financial backing of Reghis.
But what business would thrive if all it had for Sheila's customers were freeloading friends?
Suffice it to say that the restaurant soon went bankrupt, just like Sheila's father's business.
But Sheila was determined to make it as a restauranteur and she put up another restaurant, again with generous funding from Mike's dad.
She launched "The Poultry and Cattle" somewhere in Quezon City. But alas, that one folded up as well.
Her failures, however, did not keep her from flaunting her newly bought designer bags and outfits - all bought with money from the HCPTI Chairman Reghis Romero - aka Mike's dad.
Perhaps taking pity on his son, Reghis decided to hand over the reins of HCPTI to Mike in order to give him the means to afford Sheila's love of luxury.
At this point, do you think Reghis' problems with Mike, Sheila, and Sheila's parents ended?
Nope and not by a long shot ...