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What other cases are you referring to? Be specific
Investigative journalists from The Intercept proved this collaboration when they got ahold of leaked Telegram messages. That investigation is what led the Supreme Court to throw out the conviction and the United Nations to step in and call it out as bogus.
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/12/secret_files_show_how...
Are we really just going to ignore all the other evidence though? All the testimonies? The corruption can't possibly have been fake. It's scandal after scandal, Vorcaro is just the latest episode.
Note that I'm not denying that the Bolsonaros are corrupt. I think every single politician in this country is corrupt.
Doesn't that, if anything, support the idea that Lula is fighting corruption?
Bolsonaro tried to claim that Vorcaro made a payment to the Lula Institute but the police and even Vorcaro himself denied this ever happened. Lula is also the one pushing the Supreme Court to disclose everything about the case to the public
It's wild to me how much of the public associates thoroughly disproven corruption issues with Lula. Especially when the Bolsonaros has much more clear and direct evidence of corruption (e.g. the financing of the Dark Horse movie). The social media campaigns have clearly been very effective and the actual investigative journalism is being drowned out
https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/lula-esteve-com-vorcar...
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/amp/mercado/2026/02/nao-havia-...
Master has confirmed payments to people connected to Lula, including Mantega, the guy who arranged the above meeting.
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/amp/poder/2026/04/master-decla...
That meeting was an attempt to obtain presidential intervetion. Apparently, he felt disadvantaged against the bigger banks.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/how-an-obscure-bank...
What Lula himself said in this meeting is anyone's guess, but apparently Vorcaro left it very satisfied.
https://noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/natalia-portinari/2026/0...
At this point though, Lula's corruption or lack thereof is completely irrelevant. It's Vorcaro's connection to supreme court judges that are most important. How can we possibly try anyone whatsoever for corruption when the judiciary itself is tainted?
You just made a persuasive argument that Lula's corruption case had to be thrown out because of a partial judge. I accepted your argument and updated my world view.
I am now completely convinced that it is the judiciary that is the problem. It makes no sense anymore for us to even so much as speculate about the corruption of any politician until the judiciary is fixed.
If the supreme court isn't fixed, there is no doubt in my mind that it will turn into a stalinistic "find me the man and I'll find you the crime" situation. The supreme court is completely aligned with Lula right now, so I'm sure the left is going to love it. Remember, however, that the left used to call Alexandre de Moraes a racist nazifascist genocider back around the time he was nothing but a secretary in São Paulo.
Here are the citations, including PT's own website:
https://pt.org.br/damous-alem-de-despreparado-para-o-cargo-m...
https://www.brasil247.com/sudeste/dar-jeitinho-no-regimento-...
https://revistaoeste.com/politica/internet-resgata-video-em-...