Tycoon: Brazil gov’t a ‘criminal organization’
A Brazilian meat tycoon who unleashed a political firestorm with claims of wrongdoing by President Michel Temer has now accused the embattled leader of running “the country’s most dangerous criminal organization.” JBS chair Joesley Batista caused a major political uproar last month when he handed to authorities, in connection with a wide-reaching corruption scandal, an audio recording in which Temer appeared to condone the payment of hush money to a former lawmaker now in prison. “It’s the country’s largest and most dangerous criminal organization. And the president is its leader,” Batista said in an in-depth interview with the Epoca weekly published on Saturday. “Those who aren’t in prison today are in the presidential palace,” said Batista.