Janot is suspect and should resign, says Fernando Brito.

By Fernando Brito, editor of brick

Everyone remembers when the first recordings of Joesley Batista's conversation with Temer surfaced.

He said he had a lawyer "in his pocket".

Rodrigo Janot requested the arrest of prosecutor Ângelo Goulart, against whom nothing has been found so far.

The prosecutor "in my pocket" was someone else: Marcelo Miller, Janot's own right-hand man.

The audio recordings of the conversations between Joesley and his operator Ricardo Saud are intriguing.

Joesley says that Janot's guidance would be forpressure on them (JBS executives themselves) "Tell them to hand everything over, but don't mess with them. It panics them, but don't mess with them.".

Don't mess with them?

According to Veja magazine, Joesley says that Janot "knows everything" because "the group has already spoken."

Asked if it was prosecutor Marcelo Miller, a former aide to Janot who later went to work at a law firm that represented JBS, who brought the JBS situation to his attention, Joesley implicated Anselmo Lopes, prosecutor of the Operation Greenfield task force, and Eduardo Pelella, chief of staff to the Attorney General. "He's talking to Anselmo, who talked to Pelella, who talked to someone else, who talked to Janot. Janot knows about it," he said.

Then, he states that Janot and Miller will work together with "Cristian" (perhaps the lawyer Ronne Cristian Nunes, who represents JBS in numerous cases) when they leave the prosecutor's office.

It is clear that, at the very least, some degree of suspicion exists regarding Rodrigo Janot, and it is unacceptable that he should preside over an investigation in which he himself is mentioned.

Instead of shedding feigned tears of embarrassment "for the institution," the least decency one would expect from him, ten days before the end of his term, would be to resign and allow the deputy prosecutors, under the guidance of the new prosecutor, Raquel Dodge, to conduct the investigations during the transition period.

Furthermore, given everything that has happened, the second accusation against Temer, based on Lúcio Funaro's testimony, is at the very least tainted by the Batista brothers' testimony, under the current circumstances, and is clearly destined to have its agreement revoked.

Because if Janot truly wanted to defend the institution and the investigations, he would remove his ridiculed figure from them, who, at this point, is doing a service to the accused by burying all the truths that have emerged throughout the process under the mud, including the suitcases of Rodrigo Rocha Loures and Aécio Neves.

Part of the transcript of the audio recordings is in this segment from Jornal Nacional. You can see the full text here..