THERE are a few things that are publicly known about Zaldy Co, the fugitive former party-list congressman whose rise from a middling public works contractor in the 1990s to one of the top public works contractors in the country, was nothing short of phenomenal. Co even scaled the pinnacle of power — something normally outside the reach of a party-list representative — when he was named chairman of the powerful House appropriations committee at the start of the Marcos Jr.