Advisor warns: Cachoeira will open its floodgates.
Mino Pedrosa, who was an advisor to Carlos Cachoeira and distributed the Waldomiro Diniz tape, sends a message through a blog: he says that, in the heat of his cell in Mossoró, Cachoeira is thinking of telling everything; the first name mentioned was that of Congressman Miro Teixeira; he threatens even the fundraisers for Dilma's campaign.
247 - Mino Pedrosa is one of the most controversial journalists in Brasília. Some still consider him an investigative reporter, others treat him as a lobbyist, and still others use unprintable labels. His resume includes one of the biggest scoops in the history of the Brazilian press. In 1992, he revealed the story of the driver Eriberto França, which sealed the impeachment of former president Fernando Collor. He is also credited with revealing a wiretapping scandal that brought down Antônio Carlos Magalhães. In 2004, Mino was away from newsrooms. He was an advisor to the illegal gambling operator Carlos Augusto Ramos, known as Carlinhos Cachoeira. He was the one who circulated among some newsrooms the tape in which Waldomiro Diniz, former advisor to the Civil House, asks for a bribe from the gambling operator, in the first scandal of the Lula government. Mino and Cachoeira are friends. More than that: they are close. And it was in this capacity that the journalist wrote a text on his blog. Quidnovi...who sends various messages. He points to an alleged relationship between the illegal gambling operator and Congressman Miro Teixeira (PDT/RJ), former Minister of Communications in Lula's government, and warns that the racketeer is a bundle of nerves. Ready to open the floodgates of his sea of corruption. Even fundraisers for Dilma Rousseff's presidential campaign are said to have bathed in his waterfall. Read Cachoeira's message, transmitted by Mino Pedrosa:
On February 29th, an operation launched by the Federal Police, dubbed Monte Carlo, led to the imprisonment of Carlos Augusto de Almeida Ramos, known as Carlinhos Cachoeira, in Mossoró prison, Rio Grande do Norte. Along with him, secrets involving politicians, businessmen, and public officials who supported an entire corruption scheme were revealed.
It was the Workers' Party that set the trap to catch Cachoeira and silence the opposition represented by Demóstenes Torres (DEM-GO), since Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG) had backed down for fear of reprisals. The plan backfired. The operation, which extended across four states – Rio de Janeiro, the Federal District, Goiás, and Mato Grosso do Sul – got out of the control of the Planalto Palace and exposed the connection between the PT and parties allied with the Dilma government and the illegal gambling operator.
Carlinhos has a veritable arsenal that he has accumulated over the last 15 years. Shy, yet likeable, and very generous, Cachoeira has implicated people from the highest echelons of the Republic. The PT, which is pushing the sword towards Demóstenes Torres, is beginning to worry about its own backyard. And to save the nation, the renowned defender and jurist Márcio Thomaz Bastos enters the scene once again.
It was during the Valdomiro Diniz episode, a direct advisor to then-Chief of Staff José Dirceu, that Valdomiro was filmed soliciting bribes for Workers' Party campaigns. Márcio Thomaz Bastos, then Minister of Justice, worked hard to prevent the first major scandal of the Lula administration.
There, the PT's affinity with gambling and illegal activities became clear. Thomaz Bastos quickly brought in the on-call lawyer Antônio Carlos de Almeida Castro, known as Kakay, to defend Valdomiro Diniz and silence Cachoeira, preventing the scandal from reaching and bringing down the then Chief of Staff and all-powerful figure in Lula's government, José Dirceu.
Now, once again, Thomaz Bastos is being called upon, as a matter of urgency, to stem the flood of accusations that Cachoeira is about to unleash.
In the scenario painted by Cachoeira, Demóstenes is nothing more than a minnow, or rather, a small fish, which the Public Prosecutor's Office is trying to bait with inconsistent accusations so as not to be forced to go after the big fish of the PT and the government's allied base.
Meanwhile, in Mossoró, in sweltering heat of 43 degrees Celsius, Carlinhos is burning inside his cell, preparing his next attack on the Planalto Palace. These are intermediaries from the PT presidential campaigns of Lula and Dilma, who received undeclared campaign contributions from Carlinhos, who claims to have documented everything.
In the corridors of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, one hears talk of big names in national politics involved in illegal activities. One of them is allegedly Miro Teixeira, a congressman from Rio de Janeiro, Minister of Communications in the Lula government and formerly a member of the PP, PMDB, PDT, PPS, PT, and since 2005 again the PDT, now part of the allied base of the Dilma government. This story unfolds precisely at the moment when the president looks at Miro with the promise of a new ministry. Depending on the PDT.
With the defeat of the habeas corpus filed by Carlos Cachoeira's lawyers, but already with a text by Marcio Thomaz Bastos, the jurist found it necessary to take on the defense of the racketeer. After all, the PT (Workers' Party) does not want the text of the Public Prosecutor's Office to be repeated in the second habeas corpus filed today by the former Minister of Justice.
In the words of the Public Prosecutor's Office, "Contrary to what the defense claims, Carlinhos Cachoeira does not have favorable conditions, either because he has not demonstrated that he has legitimate work or because he does not have a clean criminal record. A quick internet search reveals the existence of at least three criminal cases in three different states of the Federation against the accused."
Fragments of Operation Monte Carlo also implicate several influential people in Brasília and other states. The names of the politicians, which the Presidential Palace does not want leaked to the press, are being kept secret by the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office.
Cachoeira has been receiving visits from his wife, advised by Márcio Thomaz Bastos, to convince him not to unleash his arsenal against everyone and everything. Andressa, fearing that her husband will not obtain habeas corpus, as the lawyer told her, is battling to keep Carlinhos from continuing his barracks of accusations. The difficult part is convincing the racketeer to change his target, given the heat and anger that are his allies in cell 17 of the prison in Mossoró.