Brazil's Bad-Meat Scandal Puts Spotlight on a Controversial Star
- Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi helped stem meat scandal
- His business ventures raise conflict of interest questions
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Blairo Maggi, the Brazilian farming mogul nicknamed the “King of Soy,” was set to take a short leave from his post atop the Agriculture Ministry when the country’s tainted-meat scandal broke out in March. No matter. He sprang immediately into action -- or, as he put it, “into war.”
To help prosecutors in their efforts to clean up the powerful meat industry?