Facing Expulsion, Brazil Coup Leader Cunha Ready to Rat on 150 Lawmakers
Facing Expulsion, Brazil Coup Leader Cunha Ready to Rat on 150 Lawmakers
[font size=1]
Former president of the Lower House Eduardo Cunha (C), president of the Senate Renan Calheiros (L) and Interim President Michel Temmer (R) | Photo: EFE
Published 15 June 2016 (19 hours 44 minutes ago)
[/font]
Eduardo Cunha, a main mover of the parliamentary coup against Dilma Rousseff, threatened on Wednesday to bring down 150 parliamentarians, a minister and a senator close to Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer with him if he is expelled from the Lower House.
He reportedly told Temer’s staff that, “if I’m condemned by your peers, or if the Supreme Federal Tribunal sentences me to prison, I will not go down alone.”
The Council of Ethics of the Chamber of Deputies, which Cunha once led, voted 11 to 9 on Tuesday to suspend the lawmaker and ban him for eight years from elected office for lying about his undeclared Swiss bank accounts.
Cunha was already suspended by the country's Supreme Court over allegations he was using his position to obstruct an investigation into possible improprieties.
More:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Facing-Expulsion-Brazils-Cunha-Ready-to-Rat-on-150-Lawmakers-20160615-0018.html
= new reply since forum marked as read
This is priceless. This is Trump-like. This "impeachment" always smacked of desperation, but these guys are a gaggle of geese.