Columnist Romy Marquez has been reporting on the perceived scandal of the missing $27,000 in COPAO funds. The funds were withdrawn from the COPAO bank account during the presidency of Mrs. Aurora Cudal. She has been maintaining that the signatures in the checks (that were illegally cashed) WERE fake. But neither Mrs. Cudal nor the COPAO treasurer ever reported to the bank that the checks being cashed carried forged signatures. The explanation of Mrs. Cudal is not only illogical but also not the ordinary conduct of bank depositors. Unless the COPAO had billions, if not millions, in deposits, the withdrawal of $27,000 should have easily been noticed in the bank statement that the COPAO executive officers received monthly from the bank. How could the then COPAO president, Mrs. Cudal, and her treasurer, not notice the supposed illegal withdrawals, unless they themselves were making them? The question that is being raised in the Filipino-American Court of Public Opinion? Is Mrs. Cudal a crook?