With all of the media focus on President Jair Bolsonaro replacing Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello — meaning Brazil will have its fourth different Health Minister since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic — a bombastic and potentially damaging corruption scandal involving the First Family has flown somewhat under the radar.
On Monday afternoon, news website UOL published excerpts from a police investigation into money-laundering schemes run by members of Congress and local politicians, including the names of President Bolsonaro and his second-eldest son, Carlos.
Last August, The Brazilian Report published exhaustive details of the so-called “rachadinha” scandal involving the...