Palocci Indicted

Brazil's former Finance Minister who resigned last week, Antônio Palocci, has been indicted for leaking confidential bank records of a housekeeper who claimed that Palocci regularly visited a house that dispensed bribes.

If he's convicted, I hope they throw the book at him. This appears to be a flagrant abuse of power: someone determined to ruin someone's reputation to protect their own corruption. I'm interested to know if any of my Brazilian readers can convey the level of outrage this has caused in Brazil.

The worat part of this is that it is so classicly cruel: the powerful attacking the much less powerful to protect their lies. I wonder if that could happen here?

Comments

[Alves]

I work at the bank where the financial records were broken, so just let me stay quiet. :)

[Ken Camargo]

Hi,
I have mixed feelings about that. The fact that far worse things happened during the previous government and were ostensibly ignored, that the accuser was coached by a senator now on the opposition and that the general behaviour of the present accusers is appalling, to say the least, doesn't help much in tickling my outrage.
I don't know if you ever read Fernando Pessoa's "Poema em linha reta" (available at http://www.releituras.com/fpessoa_linhareta.asp), but seeing people like ACM's grandson pontificating as a paragon of virtue always brings that poem to my mind...