Brazil labor minister suspended amid corruption probe
Updated 11:33 am CDT, Thursday, July 5, 2018
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's labor minister was suspended Thursday by a Supreme Court justice as part of an investigation into fraud.
Helton Yomura cannot enter the Labor Ministry's offices or have contact with its staff, said Joana Dantas, a ministry press officer.
Yomura's removal is another blow to President Michel Temer's administration, which has already seen several ministers resign amid scandal. Temer himself has faced allegations of corruption twice, but Congress voted both times to spare him a trial while he remains in office. He denies wrongdoing.
In Thursday's operation, federal prosecutors allege that civil servants and lawmakers manipulated the registration procedure for unions. In all, police were executing 10 search warrants and three arrest warrants but would not say who they were for.
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Triaca, Macri's (very anti-labor) Labor Minister, has been charged with placing at least two labor unions under receivership for the purposes of using them as employment agencies and slush funds for his family and friends.
His brother obtained a $30,000 contract to cater a "company party"; his sister, one for $500,000 for "communications consultancy"; and even his maid got a plum job at the Dredging and Signal Union (suffice it to say, she has no experience in either).
The judge that authorized the whole heist? He got his ne'er-do-well brother-in-law a $10,000 a month plum job as well.
In all, over 200 patronage jobs were doled out using the two hijacked unions, plus millions in contracts.
The case against Triaca, despite all the evidence, remains stalled in the courts.
We are family: Triaca and his $500,000-a-year consultant (at taxpayer expense), his sister Lorena.
He looks like the picture of Dorian Gray!
Al Capone?
If anything, Al Capone looks a lot more innocent!
This guy belonged in prison a long time ago, along with so many of his realm!
That's some kind of justice system they have arranged.
Wow.