Lava Jato Dies, Lula Is Reborn: Behind The Supreme Court Ruling

[Judi Lynn]

MARCH 9, 2021

By Brian Mier

On March 8th, Brazilian Supreme Court Minister Edson Fachin dismissed all Lava Jato related charges against former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. The ruling came as a surprise to some, since Fachin has been accused of pro-Lava Jato bias in past rulings, and leaked Telegram messages, published by the Intercept in 2019, shows task-force chief Dalton Dallagnol talking about a 45 minute meeting with the Supreme Court Minister, shouting with glee and bragging to fellow prosecutors, “Fachin is ours!“.

After last month’s Supreme Court ruling, that all 6 terabytes of Telegram conversations obtained by hacker Walter Delgatti in the so called “Operation Spoofing” were admissible as evidence in the Triplex apartment case against Lula, something had to be done to stop the bleeding. As Delgatti said in a recent interview, Dalton Dallagnol never erased any of his chats. For 5 years, he had been sharing audio messages from Sergio Moro and other important political figures with fellow prosecutors, and Delgatti recorded all of them. Furthermore, as earth shattering as the Intercept revelations were, Delgatti had only shared 57 gigabytes of information with them, and he says they refused an offer for more and only released a small portion of what he had shared. As soon as the defense lawyers began filing for new motions of dismissal along with press releases containing relevant sections of newly revealed Telegram conversations, continuing the cases against Lula became politically unsustainable.

Lula’s defense team filed its first motion of dismissal for illegal collaboration with US government authorities in February, 2018, months before the Intercept began publishing excerpts from the Telegram leaks. It was based on a July 2017 speech by US Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Blanco bragging about how informal communications with Lava Jato officials helped streamline the investigation against Lula. Informal communications between public prosecutors and foreign government officials violates Brazilian sovereignty laws.

It’s second motion for dismissal based on illegal collaboration with US officials was filed the week after the Supreme Court ruled on the admissibility of Delgatti’s hacked telegram conversations. One of the justifications was a comment made on the day of Lula’s imprisonment by Lava Jato task-force chief Dalton Dallagnol, that it was a “gift from the CIA.”

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https://www.brasilwire.com/lava-jato-dies-lula-is-reborn-behind-the-supreme-court-ruling/

[Warpy]

1. Balsonaro has bungled the Covid response as badly as Dumdum did

and for many of the same reasons: pig ignorance, a colossal ego, and a refusal to listen to anyone who knows more than he does.

People are starting to suspect Lula was railroaded and Balsonaro's popularity with the rich and the military is starting to wane as his bungling continues to kill more of them off and Brazil is facing a mammoth crisis in the coming weeks.

I do hope another member of the authoritarian club is about to be expelled.

Unfortunately, we'll still have Putin, Duterte, Xi, BoJo, Viktor Orban, and the Myanmar military junta. All of these guys eventually fall, most of them spectacularly. I just hope their people survive it.