Brazil’s Supreme Court Crisis: The Judge Investigating His Own Family’s Scandal

2026-02-18 - 10:13

Key Points Brazil’s most powerful Supreme Court justice ordered a police raid to find out who leaked his own family’s financial records — then made himself the judge overseeing the case The leak revealed his wife’s R$129 million ($22 million) contract with a bank that collapsed under fraud allegations, igniting a crisis that now engulfs