Brazil's crafty Senate boss helps keep Rousseff afloat


  • World
  • Sunday, 30 Aug 2015

President of Brazilian Senate Renan Calheiros arrives at the Federal Senate after a meeting with Brazil's Finance Minister Joaquim Levy (not pictured) in Brasilia, Brazil August 27, 2015. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Renan Calheiros took an Air Force jet to get hair implants and was accused of letting a lobbyist pay child support to a journalist he had an affair and a child with.

Either episode would have derailed many politicians but corruption allegations have not kept Calheiros, the 59-year-old president of Brazil's Senate, from making himself a go-to partner in the chaotic dance of Brazilian politics.

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