Joesley's arrest worsens Temer's situation.

Nobody really knows why Joesley wasn't arrested even for a day after confessing, in May, to bribing more than 1800 politicians of all levels, including the current president of the Republic, over the last 10 years, breaking Marcelo Odebrecht's record and putting the then-called "end-of-the-world plea bargain" to shame. 

Nobody really knows why he was arrested now, after the release of the most idiotic and pornographic wiretap in Brazilian history, which is prohibited for minors.

But you can imagine.

He wasn't arrested in May because he presented, on a silver platter, the most scandalous testimony of all time, revealing step-by-step details of an act of corruption like no one had ever shown before in Brazilian history, involving the current president of the Republic.

If I were a journalist, I would have easily won the 2017 Esso Prize – if the award still existed.

He gave the congressmen every reason to send Temer home, but that didn't happen because, ironically, Temer employed the same methods he was accused of by Joesley to convince the congressmen that they neither saw nor heard what the whole country saw and heard.

He managed to save himself, it must be said, in the eyes of the members of parliament; in the streets, he's been lost for a long time and it's an irreversible case.

Joesley was arrested now for having committed, through a blunder, not the crime alleged by Janot – withholding information – which is not very clear in the four-hour recording – but rather for having insulted four ministers of the Supreme Federal Court and Janot himself, insinuating that they are corruptible, and for having listened, without protesting, to a scandalous and sordid infamy about the current president of the Supreme Federal Court from his partner Ricardo Saud.

In other words, what I told Temer at Jaburu about bribing judges – which Temer didn't order an investigation into, at least – wasn't just braggart talk, as Temer later claimed; it was an attempt to obstruct justice, which he agreed to.

He should, in fact, have arrested him on the spot, knowing that he was a "notorious criminal," as he revealed on national television.

Joesley's arrest only reinforces Janot's second attack on Temer, which, according to rumors, is ready to be carried out, whether for obstruction of justice or for leading a criminal organization. Or both.

Geddel's Louis Vuitton luggage collection should be "la pièce de resistance".

It will be difficult to get Joesley out of jail anytime soon. Given the number of people he admittedly corrupted and continued trying to corrupt even after confessing his crimes, his sentence should be longer than Marcelo Odebrecht's – who was sentenced to 19 years and 4 months.

Furthermore, Odebrecht was arrested with many cards up his sleeve – the plea bargains – which will reduce most of his sentence; Joesley, however, has nothing left to confess. If he tries to confess anything more, he could be accused of previously withholding information and his sentence could increase.

He's in that classic situation: "if you don't snitch, you're in trouble; if you snitch, you're in trouble."

Janot's replacement – ​​to add insult to injury – is not only an ally of Temer but also the same age as the women Joesley referred to as "old women" in his self-incriminating recording.