To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (101374 ) 6/22/2013 4:53:58 PM From: Snowshoe Read Replies (1) | Respond to The man who busted Lula's party for corruption...Joaquim Barbosa: Brazil’s Most Popular Supreme Court Justice thedailybeast.com Barbosa is presiding over a historic corruption trial and deciding the fate of some of the country’s most powerful politicians. Known as the mensalão , or the big monthly payoff, the case broke in 2005, when a midlevel bureaucrat was caught pocketing a bribe. The muck went much deeper, as prosecutors turned up what they say is a massive payola scheme at the heart of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration. Though Lula himself is not on trial, his legacy is. A majority of the 11-member high court has since convicted dozens of Lula’s closest former advisers of buying votes in Congress. And as the saga has unfolded, Barbosa has led the way. Mensalão scandal en.wikipedia.org The Mensalão scandal (Portuguese: Escândalo do Mensalão, IPA: [is'k?~d?lu du m?s?'l?~w~]) was a vote-buying case of corruption that threatened to bring down the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2005.[1] Mensalão is a neologism and variant of the word for "big monthly payment" (salário mensal or mensalidade).
