BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Revelations of a surge in the personal wealth of the Brazilian government’s influential chief of staff seem unlikely to cost him his job but could drag on and become a major headache for President Dilma Rousseff.
Although there is no evidence of wrongdoing by Antonio Palocci, he is by far the highest-profile minister to be tarred by scandal since center-left Rousseff was sworn in on Jan. 1.
Opposition lawmakers have leaped upon a report in the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper on Sunday that detailed a 20-fold rise in the