Lawyer's Frequent Prison Visits to Businessman Raise Questions
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A lawyer visits a man named Vorcaro in prison very often.
Vorcaro is a businessman. He is in jail now.
The lawyer works with a group called the 'turma' of Kassio Nunes. Kassio Nunes is a judge.
People find these visits strange. This is called estranheza, or strangeness.
A journalist named Mônica Bergamo wrote about this story.
She found a contract on Vorcaro's phone. A contract is a paper deal between people.
The contract shows big payments. The payments go to a law firm.
A law firm is a business with lawyers who work together.
The law firm belongs to the wife of a desembargador. This is a high judge in Brazil.
The payments are very large. They can reach 427 million reais.
Reais is the money used in Brazil.
There is another interesting fact. The judge helped a company called Master.
He helped Master six months before his wife made the big contract with Vorcaro.
People think this looks bad. It may show a conflict of interest.
A conflict of interest is when someone helps a person who also helps them or their family.
Vocabulary7 words
- jail
- a place where people go when they break the law
- contract
- a written deal between two people or groups
- law firm
- a business made of lawyers
- desembargador
- a high judge in Brazil
- reais
- the money used in Brazil
- conflict of interest
- when a person's job and personal gain mix in a bad way
- estranheza
- a feeling that something is strange or wrong
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1. A lawyer connected to a judge's group 2. Up to 427 million reais 3. True
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A lawyer visits a man named Vorcaro in _____ very often.
Vorcaro is a _____. He is in jail now.
The lawyer works with a group called the 'turma' of Kassio Nunes, a _____.
People find these visits _____.
A journalist named Mônica Bergamo wrote about this _____.
She found a _____ on Vorcaro's phone.
The contract shows big _____ to a law firm.
The law firm belongs to the wife of a _____.
The payments can reach 427 million _____.
The judge helped a company called _____ six months before the contract.
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