UNIDENTIFIED CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Ferdinand Marcos became president of the Philippines in 1965 after campaigning on a platform to end corruption in government.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The Marcos' and several associates were charged two weeks ago with bilking the treasury of the Philippine government to buy property and artwork in New York.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CNN CORRESPONDENT: Investigations were begun into charges that Marcos had stolen $10 billion during his years in power. When the presidential palace was opened to the Philippinos, a stunned public saw, for the first time, the opulence that surround the Marcos family.</s>CHARLES FELDMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Shoes became an issue because the people of the Philippines, for a large degree, felt very strongly that it was a symbol of the abuse of power that the Marcos' displayed; that she led, along with her husband, a fairly lavish lifestyle. And a lot of people in Philippines felt that the money that she used to buy, you know, shoes and other fairly expensive items in her wardrobe, came from money that was wrongly appropriated from the people of the Philippines.</s>JIM FOX, FBI: Basically, this case amounted to the Marcos' and the other defendants using their position of trust to turn the Philippines' treasury into their personal treasure.
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