Brazil’s congressional cash-for-votes trial ends

Published November 28, 2012 11:20pm ET



SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme court on Wednesday sentenced the last three of 25 defendants convicted on charges involving a congressional cash-for-votes scheme, bringing to an end a high-profile corruption trial that has riveted Latin America’s largest country for nearly four months.

The court sentenced a former congressman, a former leader of the governing Workers’ Party and a former treasurer of the Brazilian Labor Party on charges of money laundering, embezzlement and passive corruption.

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