Posted on 07/12/2017 5:41:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison.
The judge ruled he could remain free pending an appeal.
Lula has rejected claims that he received an apartment as a bribe in a corruption scandal linked to state oil company Petrobras.
He says the trial is politically motivated and has strongly denied any wrongdoing. The case is the first of five charges against him.
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Fun how those who claim to represent the “little people” always manage to get rich off it. In the USA we have Hillary, Bernie, and Obammy.
Here’s praying Zero gets at least 20!
To bad he wasn’t a DemonRAT, he’d walking around free bragging about how rich he is.
Prisoner #6.
...and going to Comet Pizza to order, ummm, cheese pizza.
Good for Brazil. They also impeached and removed their commie president, Dilma Rousseff. Here in the US we can’t even indict the Clintons for treason and multiple other felonies.
Another Progressive posing as a Socialist gets his comeuppance as a lying thieving self-serving douche bag.
Doesn’t Soros also have his finger in that pie?
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