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Judi Lynn

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Tue Sep 13, 2016, 02:19 AM Sep 2016

The Man Who Started Brazil President's Impeachment Has Now Been Impeached Himself

Source: Brazzil

The Man Who Started Brazil President's Impeachment Has Now Been Impeached Himself

Newsroom 12 September 2016



Brazil's former president of the chamber of deputies and mastermind of President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, Eduardo Cunha, lost his seat in the Lower House. The House had so far given him immunity against judicial proceedings over corruption charges.

Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of his removal with 450 votes for impeachment, nine abstentions and 10 votes against, when the approval required only 257 deputies, with a minimum of 420 attending the vote.

At the end of the vote, Cunha left the assembly surrounded with guards while opposition representatives chanted "Cunha Out!"

Cunha has been investigated for lying about hiding over US$ 5 million in laundered money in secret Swiss bank accounts. He denied having money offshore, but accounts tied to him were repeatedly confirmed by Swiss officials.

Read more: http://www.brazzil.com/24047-the-man-who-started-brazil-president-s-impeachment-has-now-been-impeached-himself

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The Man Who Started Brazil President's Impeachment Has Now Been Impeached Himself (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2016 OP
A center-left woman gets impeached for manipulating the books by this hypocrite. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2016 #1
A picture of this guy deserves to be in the dictionary next to the word "hypocrite". Odin2005 Sep 2016 #2
What goes around... Nitram Sep 2016 #3
So much for everyone predicting the interim government was going to cover up for their own Blue_Tires Sep 2016 #4
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