‘The Great Destruction’: Brazil’s New Elite Drowning in Graft Allegations…(SSDD!)

Saturday, June 4, 2016
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
04.06.2016

Brazil’s new government is in trouble. Weeks after being installed, pending corruption-related impeachment charges against President Dilma Rousseff, interim President Michel Temer and his cabinet are drowning in corruption allegations of their own. Brazilian diplomat Paulo Almeida tells Sputnik that unfortunately, the worst is yet to come.

Last week, the scandal surrounding Brazil’s new government deepened after local media revealed that Senate-appointed interim President Michel Temer’s seven-year-old son Michel Miguel was the proud proprietor of at least two offices in a wealthy neighborhood of Sao Paulo worth over $570,000. The Estado de San Paulo daily newspaper, which made the discovery, reported that Temer’s official explanation was that he made the “donation” to his son as a way to ‘anticipate Little Michel’s inheritance.’

Temer’s official property assets, the paper noted, expanded rapidly between 2006, when he last ran for Congress, and 2014, when he was Dilma Rousseff’s running mate during her re-election campaign, from an estimated $650,000 to $2.14 million. That’s not counting the assets held by Little Michel and his other children.

And this wasn’t the only scandal involving Little Michel; the 7-year-old was entrusted to choose the new government’s logo, causing a minor uproar among Brazilians, who are already infuriated over the interim government’s moves to reverse over a decade of social advances by the Workers Party.

And it’s not the only scandal rocking the new government.

The Rest…HERE

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