decision by doctor Roger Abdelmassih, accused of having committed 56 rapes against 39 women who were his patients. The habeas corpus was requested by lawyers Márcio Thomaz Bastos and José Luis Oliveira Lima (Juca).
The text was already ready when I read Juca’s comment about “I like the Sheetthat what irritates me most about this newspaper is when it takes a scoop from its competitor.”
I can’t believe the holes taken by the Sheet Keep your readers awake. In this case, readers of at least two newspapers.
The lawyer recalled that, during lunch with the newspaper’s management at the time of , he suggested to Otavio Frias Filho (died in 2018) to hire Fausto Macedo, from O Estado de S. Paulo.
“He gives the scoop to the newspaper every week,” he said.
My blog and Fausto’s column, with whom I am friends, were competing and loyal showcases.
Juca’s artifice, in resurrecting an old fact, suggests a biased criticism of my work.
Juca is a well-known criminalist. In 2008, he called me to congratulate me on the interview with Joaquim Barbosa (, said the minister).
Juca’s phone call touched me. Ten years earlier, I had the impression that he had doubted my word.
In 1997, I published that the Securities and Exchange Commission questioned Construtora Beter S/A (Juca’s client company) to explain the donation, in the previous year, of R$ 163.9 thousand to the campaign of mayor Celso Pitta, successor of .
Shareholder Olyntho Muniz Dantas complained to the CVM that the contribution to the PPB candidate did not have prior authorization from the Board of Directors. The suspect was a slush fund.
I recorded: “The newspaper became aware of Dantas’ complaint from the meeting minutes published by Beter and obtained additional information from the CVM and Bovespa.”
Dantas confirmed the fact and refused to be interviewed. Beter declined to comment.
I learned that a director at Beter revealed to a CVM inspector that the company suspected that I had received a dossier. Or been paid.
criminal complaint against Olyntho, by the 1st Criminal Court of the Pinheiros Regional Forum. The company filed a compensation action against Olyntho for moral damages in the 5th Civil Court of the Capital.
I upheld what I had written in court.
Two things “don’t irritate me” about the newspaper. The freedom to choose subjects and legal support for the exercise of my job.
The right to defense is sacred. As Hugo Leonardo, former president of the Institute for the Defense of the Right to Defense, says, “the criminal lawyer should never be judged for the defense of a citizen.”
But, if I were a lawyer, I would not accept being the patron of a coup general, defender of torturers. Not even a doctor who raped patients, who, in his artificial fertilization clinic, destroyed the lives of several families and their dream of having children.
We still have the right to choose what bothers us most.
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