Political seism in Brazil: prosecutor asks Supreme Court to open 83 new graft investigations

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Brazil's top public prosecutor seismically expanded a corruption probe of the country's political establishment on Tuesday, asking the Supreme Court to open 83 new investigations of politicians named in explosive plea bargain testimony. Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot also requested that the Court send 211 other requests to lower courts based on much-anticipated testimony by executives of engineering group Odebrecht implicated in Brazil's biggest-ever graft scandal. Read full article

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Fora Temer: https://twitter.com/BrasilWire/status/842132926376611840
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Enrique Massot
Difficult to fight corruption for corrupt people.
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