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With each revelation, the realization grows that the Brazilian public system is rotten.

Moro is obligated to move forward with the cases against "allies" of ideological thought, because Brazil needs to get to the bottom of identifying who the real rats in the Brazilian public system are.

Brasilia-DF 09-09-2015 Photo Lula Marques/PT Agency Judge Sergio Moro at the Senate's CCJ. (Photo: Walter Santos)

The process known as "Lava Jato," which began long ago with the discovery by the Federal Revenue Service of an alarming volume of financial transactions by the money launderer Yousseff in Brasilia, could never have imagined that in later stages it would expose how the Brazilian public system, involving all levels of power, is riddled with actions involving the misappropriation of public funds and affecting renowned figures in the country. In short, corruption has taken over the branches of government.

Essentially, given that every day or week new "hair-raising" facts are revealed involving powerful figures in the Republic, it is more than clear that the entire branch of government is rotten.

THE JUDICIARY'S TURN

According to persistent rumors circulating behind the scenes in Brasilia, the next target of scandals involving the misappropriation of public funds will be the top echelons of the Brazilian judiciary, specifically members of the Superior Court of Justice and the Supreme Federal Court.

It is no coincidence that, also in Brasilia, it is frequently said that the Supreme Court only refrained from ordering the preventive detention of Senators Renan Calheiros, José Sarney, and Romero Jucá because this would imply the revelation by the parliamentarians of names within the Judiciary involved in embezzlement schemes.

Similarly, one could argue that the arrest warrant for federal deputy Eduardo Cunha was not issued because he threatened to name ministers and even interim president Michel Temer in connection with the schemes – something that would undermine the "status quo" of those leading the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. Cunha went to the Presidential Palace to tell Temer this, according to what is being said in the Federal Capital.

And all of this is an unspeakable absurdity because it is becoming increasingly clear that the overthrow and/or removal of the president was and is part of an attempt to stifle and end the unfolding of "Lava Jato," something that neither Judge Sérgio Moro nor the Supreme Court are now able to dismantle.

Focusing solely on the Workers' Party (PT) no longer works.

Any observant but attentive person can see that the scheme involving sectors of the Judiciary, the Public Prosecutor's Office, and the Federal Police, with the backing of the mainstream media, to destroy and eliminate the PT (Workers' Party) and its most prominent leader, former President Lula, is no longer working with the same intensity.

Not even the radical imposition of unnecessarily arresting former Minister Paulo Bernardo as a way to negatively expose the PT (Workers' Party) can maintain legal protection and its intended effect anymore because it is also evident that the Judiciary, especially Judge Sérgio Moro, is omitting any punitive action against the leaders of the PMDB, PSDB, DEM, etc. – many involved in plea bargains, such as Senator Aécio Neves – without a single action from Moro.

With each passing day, the Judge finds himself overwhelmed with serious accusations involving figures who were then prominent in politics, causing him, unrecognizably, to deny the acceptance of very special plea bargains, such as that of businessman Marcelo Odebrecht, because if it were to happen, it would show Brazil the reality of the involvement of all branches of government in corruption and embezzlement in the country.

But, incredibly, Moro doesn't want to accept Marcelo's plea bargain.

He, who does everything to go down in history as the exclusive executioner of the PT (Workers' Party), can no longer hold back the opposing wave, not from the PT members and Lula, but from scandalous accusations against the parties in power.

Moro is obligated to move forward with the cases against "allies" of ideological thought, because Brazil needs to get to the bottom of identifying who the real rats in the Brazilian public system are.

 

* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.