The scandal, which turns 20 this week, hit a series of names in the political elite of the time.
Leaders like the then head of the Civil House, (), ended up falling almost in political ostracism with the episode. Others, such as (), remained in evidence even though they were convicted by the Supreme Court (STF) in 2012.
Remember what happened to some of the main ones involved in the case:
Delúbio Soares
The former treasurer was expelled from the PT at the height of the crisis, but was reinstated to the party. Sentenced at the Supreme Court, he was arrested and, in 2016, benefited from pardon. But was also convicted and arrested in Paraná. In 2023, he obtained the annulment of his sentence, with the submission of the case to the Electoral Court. It is still usually attending party events and a vacancy to the House of Representatives in 2026.
Duda Mendonça
The marketer responsible for the first victory of in presidential campaign moved away from work shortly after publicly confirmed receipts from the party via Caixa two and abroad. In the process of the monthly, he was acquitted of the charges of money laundering. He returned to political activity, having as relevant work the campaign of (then in the PMDB) to the São Paulo government in 2014 – the candidate was not elected. In 2018, on the trail of Operation Lava Jato, Duda had reported irregular payments again. at 77.
João Paulo Cunha
The monthly metal frustrated the plans of the newly sought deputy of the chairman of the House, who was quoted in the command of the political articulation in the first Lula administration and rehearsed to dispute the government of São Paulo in 2006. Although not claiming the Bandeirantes Palace, Cunha was reelected federal deputy twice more. In 2012, he received 6 years and 4 months by passive and embezzlement and was arrested in 2014, leaving in 2016 after a pardon. Studied law in prison and today is dedicated to the profession, with offices in Brasilia and São Paulo. It follows the PT and participates in the daily legend.
Joaquim Barbosa
The then retired STF minister began to gain notoriety in 2007, when the court agreed to open criminal proceedings on the monthly. As a rapporteur of the case, he was widely criticized by petistas and had clashes in court mainly with the proceedings reviewer ,. After the trial in 2012, he was exalted by the right -handed electorate because of his hard votes. He retired in 2014, began to advocate and flirted with politics. In 2018, he joined the PSB, keeping an eye on a presidential candidacy, but gave up running. That year and in 2022, he stated a vote at the PT against Jair Bolsonaro.
José Dirceu
The former head of the Civil House was revoked in the House of Representatives for breach of decorum in 2005 and moved away from the Lula administration’s core at the time. In 2013, he began to serve a sentence in the monthly, having been pursued in 2016. Before that, in 2015, he was arrested at Lava Jato, suspected of receiving bribes from contractors in business consulting activities. Between comings and goings, he was arrested in Paraná for almost two and a half years. In 2024, he obtained the annulment of sentences and is now quoted as a candidate for federal deputy.
José Genoino
After the revelation of the monthly, Genoino, who had no elective public office, resigned the PT presidency in 2005 in the face of complaints. Even with the suspicions, he was elected federal deputy in 2006. In the same year, he was denounced by the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) on charges of active corruption and gang formation. In 2010, he failed to reelect himself to the House and became a advisor to Celso Amorim, then Minister of Defense. He was convicted in 2012 by the STF with an initial penalty of 6 years and 11 months, reduced to 4 years and 8 months after acquittal of the gang formation crime. He was arrested in 2013, being released in 2014. In 2020, an action related to the monthly that accused the former deputy of ideological falsehood was extinguished by the TRF-1 (Federal Regional Court of the First Region).
Lula
The president always said he was not aware of the scheme and, even in the face of the political crisis in his government, reelected himself in 2006. He was never formally accused of any crime in the monthly, but became years later the Operation Lava Jato investigation center. It was denounced in cases of corruption such as the triplex in Guarujá and the site in Atibaia. He was convicted in two lawsuits and was arrested for 580 days in Curitiba. The penalties were nullified in 2021 by the Supreme Court (STF) after the Court considered the Federal Court in the incompetent Paraná to judge the cases of the petista and declare the former Judge Sergio Moro partial to judge him. With the political rights restored, he ran back to the Planalto Palace in 2022 and won. Now, he says he will seek reelection in 2026.
Marcos Valério
In detonating the scandal of the monthly, Deputy Roberto Jefferson, then in the PTB, said that the payment operation to deputies was the responsibility of businessman Marcos Valério, who would use money from state and private companies to pay the deputies. Valério admitted in testimony to make movements and loans to private banks passed on to the PT and other parties of the base. In 2011, he was arrested on suspicion of land grabbing in the interior of Bahia, but was eventually released the same day. In 2012, Lula accused of involvement in the monthly, which was not proved. In the same year, he was convicted. Arrested in 2013, he served a closed sentence until 2019, when he moved to the semi -open.
The former federal deputy by -RJ was revoked in 2005 against the scandal and was ineligible for eight years. He received convicted in 2012 to seven years in prison for passive corruption and money laundering. He started serving time in 2014, but maintained influence on the PTB. Benefited by presidential pardon in 2016, in the Dilma Rousseff (PT) government, in 2018 tilted his party to support Jair Bolsonaro (then in the PSL). He radicalized, and in 2020 published a photo holding a rifle, claiming to prepare for a “combat against communism.”
Jefferson was included in the fake news and digital militias survey for successively attacked the STF and court ministers. He was arrested on the eve of the 2022 elections after offending Cármen Lúcia. Attacked federal police shots that came to him. In May this year, he had the house arrest authorized by Alexandre de Moraes.
Valdemar Costa Neto
Valdemar was a federal deputy for PL-SP at the time of the scandal. He renounced his term in 2005, but was elected again in 2006 and 2010. He was sentenced in 2012 to 7 years and 10 months in prison, renouncing the chair in the legislature again. Arrested, he also benefited from Dilma’s pardon in 2016. He was quoted in Lava Jato’s denunciation, but not denounced.
He followed in charge of the PL, before PR, even in prison, and became one of the main allies of Jair Bolsonaro, who joined the caption in 2021. In 2022, he signed a request from the PL to disregard votes from the polls, denied by the then president of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court), Minister Alexandre de Moraes, who sentenced the acronym to the payment of a fine of $ 22 million. He was still arrested in 2024 after Operation Tempus Veritatis, which investigates the coup plot to avoid Lula’s inauguration, but was eventually released two days later. He was indicted, but not denounced in the case of the coup plot.
