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Brazilian lawmakers in late night vote fail “to neutralize” Petrobras investigation
President Michel Temer criticized a surprise move by Brazilian lawmakers, including some members of his party and even a cabinet minister, to wipe the slate clean on illegal donations they allegedly received. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAll the rats trying to leave the sinking ship PMSL
Sep 23rd, 2016 - 12:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Eventually - sooner or later - the past / present / future offenders would be off the hook. It's just a question of time.
Sep 23rd, 2016 - 02:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Their dirty ploy didn't work.....this time.
Sep 23rd, 2016 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now we see the motivation of behind the recent impeachment and trial.
Sep 24th, 2016 - 01:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0PB was, and is, only the tip of the iceberg. What the next investigations, already underway, are going to reveal, will make the PB corruption scandal look like a piss in the ocean.
Sep 25th, 2016 - 12:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0BNDES, Eletrobras, State company pension funds....just for starters.
”The Clique of Corrupts Installed in Brasília Won't Stop Till They Pardon Themselves
Sep 26th, 2016 - 11:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0,,, …So they're now trying to pass a new law preventing their own punishment, demonstrating exactly what impeachment opponents have long warned (and Temer's close ally Romero Jucá admitted while being secretly recorded) was the real goal of removing Dilma: to enable the truly corrupt to use their undemocratically obtained power to protect themselves from investigations and prosecution. The most important fact to understand about all of this is the list of who is in danger from having engaged in this specific form of campaign corruption.
It includes installed President Temer himself, accused of receiving millions in such funds; his Foreign Minister José Serra, who purportedly received R$ 23 million from the construction giant Odebrecht; the Senate leader of Temer's government, Aloysio Nunes, accused by two informants of having received such illegal funds; the right-wing senator defeated by Dilma in 2014, Aécio Neves, who is alleged to have received R$ 1 million in illegal funds; and the current Senate President Renan Calheiros of Temer's party, said to be the biggest recipient with R$ 32 million.
Most important of all on this list is the new House president, Rodrigo Maia, whom the attorney general has placed under formal investigation after he was caught on tape asking the now-imprisoned head of construction giant OAS for R$ 250,000, which was never declared on his campaign forms.
After getting caught on tape, Maia now claims that the funds he received were not for his campaign, but for that of his father — who was just weeks ago removed from his position as city councilman due to his own corruption.
All of those officials implicated in this law-breaking voted in favor of Dilma's impeachment.”
http://www.brazzil.com/24072-the-clique-of-corrupts-installed-in-brasilia-won-t-stop-till-they-pardon-themselves
”The Clique of Corrupts Installed in Brasília Won't Stop Till They Pardon Themselves“......
Sep 26th, 2016 - 04:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For once, I agree.
”,,, …So they're now trying to pass a new law preventing their own punishment,....“
The first part of the paragraph, ”“,,, …So they're now trying to pass a new law preventing their own punishment,....” shows the scumbags they all are, independent of party - 40% of Congress (abt 200 members) have had their names mentioned in the Lava-Jato, and are being investigated. Their 'special privilege' if indicted, just means their cases will take a bit longer, as they go to the STF.
As to the second part, “....demonstrating exactly what impeachment opponents have long warned ... was the real goal of removing Dilma: ......” I cannot agree.
First, the impeachment opponents were none other than the more radical , high-ranking 'petistas', Gleisi Hoffman, Grazziotin, Lindberg Faria, Jorge Viana, José Guimarães, Humberto Costa...what would you have them to do ? turn on their leader ?
Second, Gleisi (and her hubbie Paulo Bernardo), Lindberg Faria, Humberto Costa have been accused by a few of the “Lava-Jato” whistleblowers of being part of the corruption scheme headed by the PT. Therefore, it was in their interest that Dilma carry-on, that 'Lula be empowered as Cabinet Minister' - the 'ploy' failed - so they could work together to shut the Lava-Jato down and protect their own arses. The fact Dilma has gone, and Lula is just a common citizen, has made them vulnerable ...no more special privilege...reason why they are reacting in such an aggressive manner, criticizing and doing their best to disqualify Moro and the whole Federal task force...
Third, “...and Temer's close ally Romero Jucá admitted while being secretly recorded”, while I'm well aware of the shit Jucá is, I would still like to see the link showing Juca's (secretly recorded) admission that they too, are in fact, trying to shut down the “Lava-Jato”.
7 Jack Bauer
Sep 26th, 2016 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As I have previously shown, in any country that operates under the 'common law,' which includes all of the commonwealth and the US, Moro would not have been allowed to continue once his overt bias had been revealed.“
”40% of Congress (abt 200 members) have had their names mentioned in the Lava-Jato, and are being investigated.
”Of the 594 members of the Congress, as the Toronto Globe and Mail reported, ”318 are under investigation or face charges“ while their target, President Rousseff, ”herself faces no allegation of financial impropriety.”
www.brazzil.com/24078-how-the-washington-regime-change-machine-was-able-to-oust-brazil-s-president-rousseff
@8 Hill
Sep 26th, 2016 - 07:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks for the correction regarding the 40%.....so it's more than half of them.
As to Dilma, it won't be long before she too, is indicted.....the case involving her will be the purchase of the Pasadena refinery.......bought and fully-owned by Astra Oil, which purchased it in 2005 for USD 42,5 million, half of it was sold to PB for 360 million in 2006...PB then spent another USD 100 million to “modernize” (?) it...as if that were not bad enough, the partners had a disagreement, which ended up in court. As the contract signed by Dilma obliged PB to buy the other half in the case of legal dispute, in 2009 , after the court decision, PB forked out another USD 820 million for the second half. So, USD 1.18 billion for a refinery worth USD 42,5 million…only 27 times its original value, 3 years earlier. Despite being warned by PB’s legal team, in 2006, that is was a rotten deal, Dilma nevertheless gave the OK to go ahead.....more rotten, only the intention behind the purchase.
Besides the fact that the actual purchase documents, already with the Federal task force, prove it was a terrible deal, Nestor Cerveró , ex-PB director confirmed the “dirt” that occurred, as so has the PB lawyer who warned Dilma and at the time and was told to mind his own business.
You don't suppose there was any foul play, do you ?
They failed “to neutralize” PB investigation?
Sep 28th, 2016 - 01:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe the battle was lost but the war continues?
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