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Opinion: Lula as Brazil’s “Criminal Mastermind”?

Opinion by Michael Royster

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Just when we all thought Brazilian politics might become boring after Dilma and Cunha were removed from office, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) has come to our rescue, with a pyrotechnic pronouncement that Lula, the self-styled “most honest person in Brazil”, was in fact the “commander in chief” of the criminal scheme afflicting Brazil since 2002 when he was elected President.

The scheme had two phases, the “Mensalão” and the “

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