A recording accidentally attached to an email is latest twist in world's biggest corruption scandal

[Zorro]

Source: LA Times

Brazil’s prosecutors broke the world’s biggest corruption scandal wide open with the help of one man.

Joesley Batista, a billionaire who with his brother owns the world’s largest meatpacker, JBS, admitted in May to paying out more than $192 million in bribes to roughly 1,900 politicians in exchange for favors for his company.

He also handed over an audio recording of a March conversation he had with President Michel Temer, who appears to approve the payment of hush money to Eduardo Cunha, a former congressman who was impeached and is now in prison for corruption, money laundering and tax evasion.

In return for the information, prosecutors allowed Batista and his brother, Wesley, to avoid jail time and each pay fines of $35 million, along with a $3.3-billion fine paid by their holding company J&F.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-brazil-corruption-tapes-20170905-story.html

[Achilleaze]

1. JBS recently bought up all kind of US major meat business

just so you know the character of the juggernaut industrial corporation handling your meat.

[Dustlawyer]

2. Rich people can afford to keep paying fines.

Want to stop it LOCK THEM UP LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!

[FakeNoose]

3. As long as they can get off with a fine

...then laws don't mean anything to them.

That goes for rich people as well as the multi-national corporations like General Electric.

These Brazilian guys are just doing whatever they want and it's not right.

[gristy]

4. An accident??

Whether it was an accident or not is unknowable unless or until the emailer testifies in a court of law under oath.
People do things that might look like an accident for all manner of reasons.