In just three days, the president of , Herman Benjamin, called a secret meeting that precautionarily removed minister Marco Buzzi, accused of sexually harassing an 18-year-old woman.
Unanimity was attributed to the second complaint, when an outsourced employee claimed to have been harassed by Buzzi in the minister’s office.
There was not the same agility in the face of the facts attributed to judge Alexandre Victor de Carvalho, from TJ-MG.
Alexandre was accused of welcoming lawyer Leoni Barbosa Antunes de Morais into his office, convicted in state court on charges of extorting judge Orlando Adão de Carvalho, Alexandre’s father, with whom he allegedly had sexual relations in court.
In March 2012, the STJ rejected habeas corpus (nº 214.804-MG; ) which intended to block the criminal action. The rapporteur was Gilson Dipp, former national inspector of justice. The Deputy Attorney General’s Office decided to deny the order.
The MP-MG, based on the police investigation, narrates that the lawyer embarrassed Orlando Adão: “Taking advantage of the victim’s (Adão) voluntary intern status at TJ-MG, he had sexual intercourse with her, taking advantage of the fact to save the victim’s semen and later use it as a means of forcing her to give him money.”
Adão appointed Leoni as legal advisor from 2005 to 2008. In June 2004, he gave Leoni R$25,000 and made monthly bank deposits worth R$4,000.
According to the TJ-MG, Leoni claimed to have been harassed and that “the deposits made in her favor were not the result of alleged extortion but rather an informal work relationship.”
Alexandre defends Alexandre
In January 2014, he ordered that the disciplinary complaint against Alexandre brought by the then inspector Eliana Calmon be removed from the agenda.
Before retiring, Adão transferred lawyer Leoni to Alexandre’s office. There were indications that, according to a family agreement, the lawyer should be paid without going to court.
Alexandre, suspected of “splitting” part of her salary, was acquitted. The defense argued that there was an “informal exchange”.
The then lawyer Alexandre de Moraes, current minister of , defended Alexandre de Carvalho.
Moraes maintained that the CNJ could not review a TJ-MG decision more than a year after the trial in which the state court acquitted Alexandre.
“What the CNJ cannot do is disguise a review, as if it were a new complaint for the same facts,” said Moraes, who was a member of the CNJ in its first composition.
Alexandre was an assistant judge at the CNJ. He participated in inspections in courts when minister João Otávio de Noronha was national inspector of justice.
Alexandre maintained that no illicit conduct or disciplinary misconduct was demonstrated.
According to his defense, there would only be “absolutely false and untrue statements and imputations”.
Alexandre considered Leoni’s statements “confusing, inconsistent, untrue, contradictory and frivolous”.
Holding back the rapporteur
In 2021, in the criminal trial against Alexandre, accused of passive corruption. Evidence was shared with the CNJ.
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Alexandre’s defender, lawyer Eugênio Aragão, former Minister of Justice in the Dilma Rousseff government, tried to interrupt Benjamin’s vote.
The criminal action had been removed from the agenda in June 2020, on the eve of Alexandre’s inauguration as president of TRE-MG.
The postponement avoided the risk of the judge taking charge of the second largest electoral college in the country as a defendant, if the complaint was received.
In December 2024, the CNJ removed Alexandre for 60 days, accused of negotiating the appointment of his son and wife as ghost public servants, and of proposing a “split” scheme to divide salaries, benefiting his mother-in-law.
The disciplinary process against Alexandre.
A, two vacations.
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