Florentino Velasquez Floro Jr. (born November 5, 1953) is a Filipino former judge who achieved notoriety after being suspended from the Philippine judiciary in 2006 due to mental illness.
Floro made several statements that he was psychic and claimed to frequently communicate with invisible duendes, a type of dwarf common in Filipino and Latin American mythology.
[5] In 1995 Floro applied to the Judicial and Bar Council, but was rejected for the bench after failing the mandatory psychological examination by the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
The Clinic Services of the Supreme Court found "evidence of ego disintegration" and "developing psychotic process", and Floro voluntarily withdrew his application.
[13][14][15] After 68 months of suspension, on April 7, 2006, the Supreme Court fined Floro 40,000 pesos and removed him from his position with three years back pay, allowances, and benefits.
Floro also asked the Supreme Court to declare Noli de Castro as acting President, as Solomonic solution to the political crisis.
[34][35][36] In late April 2007, Floro filed a disbarment complaint grounded on charges of gross misconduct, ignorance of the law, manifest undue interest, questionable temporary restraining orders and violations of the ethical standards and code of conduct by the Philippine Court of Appeals Associate Justices, "CA 'Dirty Dozen'".
[37] Floro named one justice specifically as part of a "dirty dozen", twelve judges currently under investigation for corruption by the court's Ombudsman.