The money trail

摘要

Where money, politics and scandal meet in Brazil, there is usually a camera somewhere nearby to take the pictures that will make any later profession of innocence ring hollow. Roseana Sarney's presidential bid was killed in 2002 when images of half a million dollars in banknotes found at her husband's office were broadcast on television. But the scandal that has been rumbling on since the end of November in Brasilia has bested all previous efforts in this genre.