Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Run, Legislator, Run!

"Ex-Brazil legislator on run from crime charges, police say"
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/07/brazil.tv.host.missing/index.html

Another politician gone awry, big surprise. Good thing this one is stepping it up to an unprecedented level, or else the story would be just plain boring. I mean, Wallace Souza is not just your every day, bribe accepting, tax cheating legislator, oh no. He's a former TV-hosting, drug-dealing, gang-forming, Brazilian legislator. He has even allegedly ordered his rivals killed, and then proceeded to have his TV camera crews for his show Canal Livre, be the first news team on the scene, which, of course, drove up ratings. This is all according to police, that is, whose argument sounds rather legitimate considering the offender, Wallace Souza, is currently on the run and missing. After a hearing voting him stripped of his political immunity, police now have full order for Souza's arrest. Now it's just a matter of where and when before he is caught and formerly charged .

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