Photo courtesy of guestofaguest.com
Tim Mark Garcia is the head of public relations for Marc Jacob's men's division. He is also the son of the former Armed Forces of the Philippines comptroller Major General Carlos F. Garcia, who has been accused of stealing $6.2 million in public funds. In 2004, he purchased a Trump Park Avenue condominium worth $765,000 for his son.
I was saddened when I came across an article on guestofaguest.com some time ago crediting Tim for wearing his little Chanel ankle pouch (in red) to hide the electronic monitoring house arrest device (in black) that is snug around his ankle. The article in my opinion is sensationalizing him for the wrong reason. Let us keep in mind that Tim and his family are out on a million dollar bond.
Incidentally, Tim is a close friend of the BOY. He stays with him in his Park Avenue apartment when he visits New York City. Our characters are shaped by the company we keep. "Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are."
If you are interested to read more about Tim's lavish lifestyle, you may visit The Daily Beast. Special thanks to dontaskmetosmile for sharing the link with us.
I went to school with him. He was actually pretty nice but obviously very materialistic. Regardless of his good traits, magnanakaw pa din ang buong pamilya nya. Sadly, they are not the least bit embarassed or guilt-ridden by this fact.
ReplyDeleteLast month at the height of the AFP investigation I happened to share this story with some friends here in NYC, sabi ko pa $500,000 yung apartment and they were aghast. Tapos it costs way more than that pala. Nakakalungkot, kawawa mga taxpayers, magbayad sana mga magnanakaw na yan.
ReplyDeleteNakakaawa Naman Siya, in the company of criminals. Tsk tsk. That was temporary. Maybe he should me made to live in the depressed areas is Manila and have a taste of the life most Filipinos consider normal.
ReplyDeleteWawa Naman, lilt Ng closet space NiyA to contain his designer clothes. Try living in one and not see a way out of poverty.
How much do military officers make? Millions of pesos na ba ang going rate
ngayon? Don't they wonder where their money was coming from? Again , put
him in a cramped living space in a squatter settlement and give him a taste if the
hard life--the real life for most. Kawawa Naman Siya.
so ankle house arrest monitoring devices are chic na pala ngayon basta they are "camouflaged" with high end accessories. i agree with you mike, why play up something like that? it doesn't sit well with me either. :(
ReplyDeleteIn the The Daily Beast, Fashion’s Night In, article, Timothy Mark Depakakibo Garcia or Tim Garcia lamented not being able to wear his Sergio Rossi boots for the electronic monitoring house arrest anklet he was wearing. The article also mentioned fashion blogger du jour, Bryanboy, was this Louis Vuitton trunk lugging guest at his Trump Tower apartment.
ReplyDeleteIn the ongoing investigation on where the military money has gone, a name Jacinto Ligot came into the picture. Ligot is an ex-military comptroller. A comptroller controls the money.
Carlos Garcia is the successor of Jacinto Ligot. Ligot’s brother-in-law is Edgardo Yambao. (related to Bryan Grey- Yambao? aka Bryan Boy)
In Carlos Garcia's wife sworn statement in Dec 2010 (http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleid=642949), she mentioned that they owned the Katamnan Resort. Ha! sleepy coastal town do rock some scandals after all!
When you go that website (www.katamananresort.com), you won't find information on contacts that will connect to them. It's all business and party package deals. I've been there and it's not a beach resort but a mango orchard resort in the middle of a ricefield, hence "katamnan'. Seems like uber marc jacobs head PR, Tim Garcia, didn't have a hand in this family business website, or maybe he did - by positioning it as a beach resort instead of an idyllic orchard. So deceiptful!
Any recent updates on this scandal? Can't google anything later than 2009 on Tim Garcia specifically. Anyone knows his whereabouts?
They might get away with this because this news is no longer the new black.
Here's a collection of articles on Major General Carlos Garcia to refresh your memories, and rekindle vigilance on this blatant plunder.
http://trapo.freeservers.com/garcia.html
Sincerely,
The Provincial Lass
I hate how he acts like he and his family are victims. He's wearing designer clothes using money that should have been used to buy protective, life-saving gear for our soldiers. I don't think he cares t some poor soldier probably died because money for his helmet went into buying his now unwearable "knee high croc boots by Sergio Rossi"
ReplyDeleteThat's one more reason any press release of Marc Jacobs that reaches my desk goes straight to the trash bin.
ReplyDeleteI could never understand how people can flaunt ill-gotten wealth. Distasteful indeed! Tsk tsk tsk. That quarter of a million dollars of taxpayers' money should have been used for the betterment of our society. Kapal ng mga mukha... living the high life using others' money. Mapapamura ka talaga.
ReplyDeleteThe Bag named after the boy will be banned for purchase in our home. hehe.
ReplyDeleteBwahahahahah ka fez ni bading si VJ Floresca!!!!
ReplyDeleteToo bad I love Marc Jacobs. The HR should screen the people they hire. I personally had a chance to meet him in 2007 when I visited my friend in NYC. He was quiet and very timid maybe because he was not feeling well at that time. As soon as he left, my friend old me that He shares the floor with Ivanka! And I said wow, that guys is loaded. Then my friend told me that he was the one caught at the airport carrying more than $100,000! Then I realized that he is a crook!
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How was he able to get out of his house if the house arrest monitor was still attached to him???
ReplyDeleteFor Fashion Week they give him special privileges due to the nature of his work. So he was allowed to go to work, up to a certain time. Midnight or 1am, I don't remember. If he's not at home by that time, then the bracelet goes off.
ReplyDeleteBasta for me, What ever social level he is climbing to - Hes still a trying hard underclass gay wanting to be part of that nouveaue riche group but still the real fact is they are crook and no real source of money. So better be true to himself, at the end of the day, he has no real friends at all the fact that he is just clothed with superficial/fake world. At his back they just stab him and even rich people might laugh @ him and just stare their eyes condescendingly. Well, there is a lot like that in Manila/Phil Society so no wonder:-)Poor Souls! there is more to life than that superficial thing
ReplyDeletethick skinned!!!...super super thick....mga walang hiya!!!!!
ReplyDeletesincerely,
pandora
basta ill gotten wealth, masarap e flaunt. ang mga true rich hindi kailangan magyayabang. very low key and unassuming ang truly moneyed crowd!!!!
ReplyDeletejust to give an idea of how much military people earn. my dad retired a couple of years back as a Captain and he was then earning PHP30k. It is so impossible for them to have amassed that much money with that salary unless they were buena familia to begin with. They give military men a bad name, so sad.
ReplyDeleteeh bakit hindi siya tanggalin sa trabaho niya diba? alam naman yan for sure ng employer niya.....o deadma?
ReplyDeleteid rather walk the earth with ripped clothes that i bought with my sweat than wear chanel that was paid from my country's money
ReplyDelete@anonymous april 28. 944
ReplyDeleteI agree with you!
The Philippine media seems fixated on peddling the unsubstantiated "exposé" on BryanBoy published in a Manila magazine. Any discerning reader can tell that the so-called exposé is a hatchet job. Their allegation about BryanBoy is serious yet they didn't even solicit the opinion of any law enforcement official to validate their wild accusations against the world famous blogger. If it's true that he is a credit card fraudster, the US Secret Service would have gone after his ass already because he has left so many paper trail to remain undetected for so long. Now that he is a New York resident especially and occupying front row seats at every fashion show that matters across the globe, his detection and prosecution would be even easier. It appears that Manila's insular and pretentious and mostly corrupt and amoral "high society" can't accept the fact that someone from the slums could outdo the best of them in penetrating the most elitist social circle on the planet: the fashion world. Respected publications from The Wall Street Journal to The New York Times to Vogue, and some of the most discriminating fashion icons such as Anna Wintour, are all one in saying that BryanBoy is one of the most influential fashion arbiters in the world today. His success story can happen only in America, and Americans like myself celebrate his story because it's the classic American Dream. If they have any evidence to send him to jail, they should present it instead of recycling the laughable story that he used different credit cards with variants of his name as the account holder. I say it's laughable because being a holder of various credit cards myself, I know that some of my cards just bear my single name while some carry my middle name as well. It's really a matter of personal choice on the part of the cardholder as to what of his legal and valid names to appear in his card.
ReplyDeleteThe Philippine media seems fixated on peddling the unsubstantiated "exposé" on BryanBoy published in a Manila magazine. Any discerning reader can tell that the so-called exposé is a hatchet job. Their allegation about BryanBoy is serious yet they didn't even solicit the opinion of any law enforcement official to validate their wild accusations against the world famous blogger. If it's true that he is a credit card fraudster, the US Secret Service would have gone after his ass already because he has left so many paper trail to remain undetected for so long. Now that he is a New York resident especially and occupying front row seats at every fashion show that matters across the globe, his detection and prosecution would be even easier. It appears that Manila's insular and pretentious and mostly corrupt and amoral "high society" can't accept the fact that someone from the slums could outdo the best of them in penetrating the most elitist social circle on the planet: the fashion world. Respected publications from The Wall Street Journal to The New York Times to Vogue, and some of the most discriminating fashion icons such as Anna Wintour, are all one in saying that BryanBoy is one of the most influential fashion arbiters in the world today. His success story can happen only in America, and Americans like myself celebrate his story because it's the classic American Dream. If they have any evidence to send him to jail, they should present it instead of recycling the laughable story that he used different credit cards with variants of his name as the account holder. I say it's laughable because being a holder of various credit cards myself, I know that some of my cards just bear my single name while some carry my middle name as well. It's really a matter of personal choice on the part of the cardholder as to what of his legal and valid names to appear in his card.
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