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OBenario4

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Sun May 21, 2017, 02:53 AM May 2017

Brazil's top prosecutor accuses Temer of obstructing justice

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s top prosecutor is accusing President Michel Temer of corruption and obstruction of justice, according to an investigation released Friday by the supreme court, dramatically escalating pressure to force the embattled leader from office.

At the same time, other released documents said the owner of a major meatpacker has told prosecutors that he transferred $150 million to offshore accounts for the campaigns of Temer’s two predecessors in the presidency.

Attorney General Rodrigo Janot’s charges against Temer threaten to drive him from the presidency and represent an extraordinary development in a corruption probe that is upending politics and just about everything else in Latin America’s largest nation.

For Temer, a 76-year-old career politician who was not elected, the fallout could cost him his job. Temer, then vice president, took power a year ago after President Dilma Rousseff was impeached and later removed from office for illegally managing the federal budget.

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http://www.dailyrepublic.com/california-us-world/brazils-top-prosecutor-accuses-temer-of-obstructing-justice/

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Brazil's top prosecutor accuses Temer of obstructing justice (Original Post) OBenario4 May 2017 OP
Right wing politicians have been fighting like madmen to keep Lula from running again. Judi Lynn May 2017 #1

Judi Lynn

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1. Right wing politicians have been fighting like madmen to keep Lula from running again.
Sun May 21, 2017, 05:16 AM
May 2017

US papers and wire services are more than glad to repeat their claims, but those fabrications are going to disappear back into the void from which they came, after enough investigation is applied, if and when strong honest people will seek to find the truth.

This part from the article above is tremendous:

In it, two men can be heard talking about former Lower House Speaker Eduardo Cunha, now serving a 15-year prison sentence for corruption and money laundering. Globo’s report identified the men as Temer and Batista.

One man, apparently Temer, complains that Cunha could potentially embarrass him.

“Within my limits, I did the most I could there. I settled everything,” responds the other man, apparently Batista. “He came and collected, etc., etc., etc. I am good with Eduardo, OK?”

The first man then says: “You have to keep that up, see?” To which the second man responds: “Every month.”

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What a joy knowing Cunha is in the slammer. Who on earth, when Cunha was riding high so very recently, would have dreamed they could and would put him where he belongs!

If it happened once, it can happen again!

Keeping fingers crossed for a just resolution to this enormous situation.

How sad it is that Brazil, Argentina, and the U.S. are all in the hands of monsters, for the moment. Hoping we will all be released from bondage to greedy cretins.

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