The press that caused Pimentel to lose his reelection after a Federal Police operation reports the dismissal of the investigation in footnotes.

247 - Operation Acronym, launched by the Federal Police (PF) in May 2015, accused Fernando Pimentel of leading a criminal organization while serving as Minister of Development, Industry and Commerce. The investigation was closed due to lack of evidence this Tuesday (28) at the request of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF). All phases of the investigation received strong media coverage and numerous newspaper headlines, such as "PT governor heads criminal gang, says Federal Police," which led to Pimentel losing his reelection bid in 2018 in the state of Minas Gerais. The dismissal of the inquiry received only footnotes from the mainstream press. This information comes from the column of... Forum magazine.

At the time, in November 2015, a federal police officer went to a hospital in Belo Horizonte to take a statement from Carolina de Oliveira Pimentel, the first lady of the state of Minas Gerais, who was eight months pregnant. The federal agent even offered Carolina the opportunity to make a plea bargain against the father of her unborn child.

At the end of July 2020, five years later, the investigation was closed by the Federal Court at the request of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office. At the beginning of the Federal Police operations, headlines about the matter were rampant. However, the closure due to lack of evidence received only footnotes in the mainstream press. "Who will apologize to the Pimentel family?", writes Reginaldo Lopes in his column in Fórum magazine. 

The topic at the moment is The governor of Piauí and his wife, through a new round of media operations. The target is still the Workers' Party.