Michael Ray Aquino, Date of Birth
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Filipino police officer (please split the English entry into a seperate item as all the others are about an American Satanist of the same name)
Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1946
Profession: police officer, intelligence officer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Michael Ray Aquino
- Michael Ray Aquino is a former intelligence officer in the police force of the Philippines.
- He was accused of involvement in a 2000 political murder, and more recently was convicted of helping to transmit classified information from the United States to opposition leaders in the Philippines. Aquino's Philippine-related career included serving as Deputy Directory of the Intelligence Group, and as senior superintendent of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (now defunct).
- He served under President Joseph Estrada, and remained politically loyal to Estrada after Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo rose to power.
- In 2001, he and Cesar Mancao were charged in connection with the killing of Bubby Dacer, a former public relations official for Joseph Estrada.
- Aquino then left the Philippines and moved to New York. In March 2005, Aquino was arrested for overstaying his visa.
- He contacted his friend Leandro Aragoncillo, a Philippine-born security specialist at the White House; however, Aragoncillo's efforts on Aquino's behalf eventually led to Aragoncillo's being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- In the course of that investigation, evidence of espionage against the United States Government was uncovered.
- Aquino was then accused of helping Aragoncillo transmit classified United States documents regarding President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to her opponents in the Philippines, including both Joseph Estrada and current opposition leader Panfilo Lacson, who had been Aquino's superior in the police force.
- Under an eventual plea-bargain agreement, Aquino entered a plea of guilty to illegal possession of classified documents, but avoided the more serious charge of espionage that Leandro Aragoncillo received. Aquino faced a jail sentence of between 70 and 87 months plus a $250,000 fine.
- On July 17, 2007, he was sentenced to six years and four months in prison by U.S.
- District Judge William H.
- Walls.
- Federal prosecutors had sought the maximum 10-year term.
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