Brazil Prosecutor Says Rousseff’s Accounting Tricks Not a Crime
- Prosecutor recommends separate probe into unathorized payments
- The report has no legal bearing on the impeachment process
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A federal prosecutor in Brazil found that the accounting maneuvers that form part of the request to impeach Dilma Rousseff are not a crime, though they do represent an “abuse of power,” according to the report filed Thursday.
The report comes two months after the Senate temporarily removed the president from office to face an impeachment trial, which is expected to conclude in August. Rousseff’s critics say she broke the law when she delayed payments to state banks in order to mask the size of the budget deficit. Rousseff says her actions don’t justify her removal from office.