"Kapag nagmi-meeting kami, kanya-kanya kaming bayad kasi (Whenever we hold our meetings, we pay for our own because) if you notice, this is the popular misconception that we are funded by anyone. We are not funded by anyone. We are doing this. We have our own careers at hand," said the lawyer, a former legal counsel of alleged pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles.