 In 1998, "La Prensa" and other Panamanian papers reported that the construction of a new Assembly building had been tainted by graft, and that a representative of the US corporation HNTB had distributed US$5 million in bribes to secure the project.The following year, the paper broke the story that two members of the campaign of PRD candidate Martín Torrijos had accepted bribes from Mobil for use of a former US military base.Former Attorney General José Antonio Sossa filed a criminal complaint for libel against four "Prensa" journalists in 2000