Thread by @BrianMteleSUR

As Julian Assange's extradition approaches, let's remember how Wikileaks exposed Sergio Moro's role in the birth of the US/Curitiba Public Prosecutors Lava Jato investigation, which destroyed key sectors of Brazil's development strategy and helped put Bolsonaro in power. ctd

"This is the first regional conference conducted under the Projeto PONTES (Translation: Bridges Project) umbrella, a new training concept post introduced in February 2009 to consolidate bi-lateral law enforcement training."

"Judge Sergio Moro then discussed the 15 most common issues he sees in money laundering cases in the Brazilian Courts. U.S. presenters discussed [...] formal and informal international cooperation [...], plea bargaining,"

In 2009, coerced plea bargain testimony was illegal - It was legalized for Lava Jato. Informal int. cooperation is a crime. US Asst. Attorney Gen. Kenneth Blanco's admission that it was happening led to the first motion to dismiss all charges against Lula. brasilwire.com/us-admits-role…

Dilma Rousseff now says one of her biggest regrets is legalizing coerced plea bargain testimony in 2013. In 2009, when US provided training to Sergio Moro on it, it was still illegal. Was Rousseff tricked into legalizing it to advance the coup? cartacapital.com.br/politica/infel…

Returning to the cable: "Two large urban centers with proven judicial support for illicit financing cases, in
particular Sao Paulo, Campo Grande, or Curitiba, should be selected as the location for this type of training."

"Then task forces can be formed, and an actual investigation used as the basis for training that would sequentially progress from investigation through the courtroom presentation and conclusion of the case."

"This would give the Brazilians actual experience in working on a long term proactive illicit financing task force, and allow access to U.S. experts for on-going guidance and support."

It didn't take the Operation Spoofing leaks to show the US DOJ was a partner in Lava Jato. DOJ started posting information on this on its own website in 2016. Thanks to Julian Assange, we know a lot more about how this illegal collaboration started. wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/0…

Essentially, the US DOJ "trained" lava jato taskforce to help overthrow a democratically elected president and install someone to open access to Petroleum reserves to US multinationals, and how to jail an innocent presidential front-runner to install a subfascist US boot-licker.