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After latest leaks, can Sergio Moro withstand the heat?

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Sergio Moro

The Brazilian news cycle has been dominated in recent weeks by a series of reports by The Intercept Brasil based off leaked phone messages between Justice Minister Sergio Moro and prosecutors of the Operation Car Wash task force. The conversations date back to the time Mr. Moro was working as a federal judge in Curitiba, overseeing Car Wash cases in that state.

A new batch of leaks have been released today, as a result of a partnership between The Intercept Brasil and weekly magazine Veja—and they are arguably the most damning of all the material released so far.

While the most recent publications had been vaguer—with less direct involvement of Sergio Moro himself and coming as something of an anticlimax for Brazil’s scoop-hungry Twitterati—today’s leaks are very compromising, showing further instances of Mr. Moro having broken his responsibility of being an impartial adjudicator while presiding over Operation Car Wash.

The leaks show Sergio Moro colluding with the task force, opining on plea-bargain negotiations, and even suggesting prosecutors include certain pieces of evidence in their cases against Car Wash defendants. All of these...

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