. November 12, 2012 SouthAmerica: In Brazil they are sending to prison the very powerful people for a scandal regarding ânickels and dimes.â In contrast the âBanana Republic of the United Statesâ has done nothing regarding the corruption and fraud in Wall Street regarding trillions of US dollars. ***** Folha de Sao Paulo â November 12, 2012 âDirceu é condenado a quase 11 anos de prisão por crimes no mensalãoâ O Supremo Tribunal Federal estabeleceu ao ex-ministro José Dirceu, penas que, somadas, chegam a 10 anos e 10 meses de prisão. A multa aplicada é de R$ 676 mil. Pela legislação, Dirceu terá que cumprir parte de sua condenação na prisão. A lei estabelece que penas acima de 8 anos devem ser cumpridas inicialmente em regime fechado. ***** Folha de Sao Paulo â November 12, 2012 âGenoino é condenado a 6 anos e 11 meses de prisão e deve cumprir semiabertoâ O Supremo Tribunal Federal estabeleceu ao ex-presidente do PT José Genoino penas que, somadas, chegam a 6 anos e 11 meses pelos crimes cometidos no mensalão. Além de multa de R$ 468 mil. Com isso, Genoino terá que cumprir a pena inicialmente em regime semiaberto, podendo sair da prisão para trabalhar. .
You beat me to it. Yet another useless 1 star thread. But go ahead SA, and continue discussing. With yourself.
. November 12, 2012 SouthAmerica: Eventually the law caught up even with people such as Pinoche. Documentary -- International War Criminals â November 5, 2012 <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/z5l-EAUoAXw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Press TV's documentary program "International War Criminals" looks at the legal bases of the US and UK led invasion of Iraq in 2003 through an interview with the renowned international criminal law expert, Francis Boyle. .
New corruption scandal rocks Brazilian government... (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, moving quickly to nip a new scandal in the bud, ordered the dismissal on Saturday of government officials allegedly involved in a bribery ring, including the country's deputy attorney general. Federal police raided government offices in Brasilia and Sao Paulo on Friday and arrested six people for running an influence peddling ring that sold government approvals to businessmen in return for bribes. Among those under investigation are the former personal secretary of ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Rosemary de Noronha, who has headed the regional office of the presidency in Sao Paulo since 2005. The bribery scandal erupted on the heels of Brazil's biggest political corruption trial that sentenced some of Lula's closest aides to prison terms for buying support in Congress for his minority Workers' Party government after taking office in 2003. Rousseff, Lula's chosen successor, was not affected by the vote-buying scandal and she has built on his popularity by gaining a reputation for not tolerating corruption. But the ruling Workers' Party was rocked by the scandal which tarnished Lula's legacy even though he was not implicated. The new corruption case could further hurt the standing of Lula, who remains Brazil's most influential politician. Friday's arrests included two brothers who were recommended for positions in the federal government by Lula's former secretary, Noronha: Paulo Rodrigues Vieira, director of the National Water Agency and Rubens Carlos Vieira, director for airport infrastructure at Brazil's Civil Aviation Agency. Police accused the brothers of recruiting second-tier government employees who would be open to bribery, while a third brother also under arrest, Marcelo Rodrigues Vieira, contacted businessmen willing to pay for false or speeded-up approvals. Police have been investigating the bribery ring since 2010 when an official in the government accounting office who was offered $150,000 for a favorable report got cold feet, returned the money he had been paid and blew the whistle. Early on Friday, police seized computers and data from the Brasilia office of Deputy Attorney General Jose Weber de Holanda Alves, who has been dismissed and is under investigation along with a dozen other people, including a former senator. "By presidential decision, all the government employees under investigation by the Federal Police will be dismissed or fired from their positions," a statement form Rousseff's office said. She ordered all agencies mentioned in the police probe to open internal investigations. Police are investigating possible bribery cases at several other federal agencies, including the Ministry of Education. While Noronha served as chief of staff of the president's regional office in Sao Paulo, Rousseff had inherited her as a Lula appointee. Veja news magazine reported that Noronha, who was very close to Lula and traveled with him abroad when he was president, received bribes for influence peddling that included a luxury cruise trip and plastic surgery.
November 25, 2012 SouthAmerica: Reply to John Wensink We have been discussing this subject on Facebook, and also at Brazzil magazine as follows: Brazzil magazine http://www.brazzil.com/component/co...all-sides-gangs-army-and-courts.html#comments .
John is right of course. SA is just another nut running around ET with such a severe case of narcissistic personality disorder that he replies to his own posts in 3rd person parlance and sports a "foaming at the mouth" hatred of the United States while living here and utilizing US websites to denigrate his adopted country. He cannot make a living in Brazil so he lives here where he gets social security, medicare and welfare assistance. He is ET's creepiest member by far. I get a mental image of SA as a skinny old guy with greasy hair and a white patent leather belt and matching shoes who lives in a converted garage and hasn't been laid in *decades*. He is the Latino version of Brass without the charm. The man thinks he is a no-kidding journalist. I don't think he has a trading account or owns any securities. Instead of just blogging on his own website he uses ET as a blog likely because he knows that nobody would care to read his blog site if he had one. His posts are instantly moved to P&R so he thinks he is being treated unjustly. Lets face it, Brazil just plain sucks and the entire world is going to see that during the Olympics. People are going to be robbed on the beach and killed on the streets and poverty in Rio will be documented by news crews from around the world. Some guys are just single-minded. We've got FreeThinker who cannot help but see every issue as being religious. We've got futurecurrents who sees everything as a global warming related. We've got Ricter who views the entire world as a centrally planned economy and we've got SouthAmerica who hates America and constantly promotes some filthy south american country that nobody here gives a particular damn about. All of these guys are dysfunctional in their own way. They are nuts to put it mildly.
Hmmm. Do you seriously think people really care about some corruption news in Brasil ? I can understand if it's a major scandal in China or the EU as they are entities that are economically and militarily significant with global reach... Brazil just means nothing to us.....It's like saying there is a car accident in New Zealand..I mean, who cares?
November 25, 2012 SouthAmerica: Reply to Grandluxe I understand why you are in denial and think that way - when your economic, financial, and political system is corrupt to the core and beyond repair then the subject of scandal, corruption and how to clean up the system is irrelevant from your point of view. It's like saying to the Captain of the Titanic: don't worry about it, you just hit an iceberg.... .