A close business associate and fraternity brother of former House speaker and Leyte Representative Martin Romualdez has resurfaced in a second multi-million-dollar property transaction in a wealthy enclave in Connecticut, United States.
This discovery also brings to six the number of properties purchased, or that changed hands among Romualdez associates since he became House speaker in 2022, based on Rappler’s own investigations.
The 9,967-square-foot house has five bedrooms and five bathrooms, and sits on a 10.54-acre (4.2-hectare) estate.
Documents obtained by Rappler show that a company linked to lawyer Andrew Casiño acquired a high-value estate in Greenwich, Connecticut, in September 2022, three months after Romualdez was elected speaker. This was transferred to another registered company in July 2025, at the height of the controversies involving Romualdez in the flood control corruption scandal.
MILLIONS. Instagram posts of a real estate agent show the Connecticut property being sold for $6.9 million in 2022.
