An opinion piece on dynastic power, unexplained wealth, and a family that treats a bank waiver as an insult Here is the cheapest, fastest and most devastating thing the Duterte family could do this week: sign the bank waivers. One signature per account. One afternoon. If former SenatorAntonio Trillanes IV is lying when he says that Rodrigo, Sara, Paolo and Sebastian Duterte together hold at least ₱2.4 billion in undeclared bank deposits, open accounts would prove it in public and humiliate him before the entire country. No libel suit could do that as well. No spokesperson's statement could come close. They have not done it. Rodrigo Duterte has threatened libel charges instead, while, according to reporting on the matter, remaining opposed to signing waivers that would open the accounts. The Vice President's spokesperson, Salvador Paolo Panelo, calls the whole thing "exhausted lies." And the country is invited, once again, to take a powerful family's wo...