Brazilian Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the nation’s convicted former president, arrived in Washington on Tuesday to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House ahead of his nation’s October election.
Bolsonaro is running for president but arrived without a public agenda. He posted a photo of himself standing beside Trump in the Oval Office on social media. He also posted a video saying he would make another post elaborating on his meeting.
Bolsonaro came under scrutiny on May 13, when messages leaked by The Intercept from a federal police investigation showed he received about $12 million from Daniel Vorcaro, former owner of the shuttered Banco Master. Vorcaro is accused of defrauding bank customers out of hundreds of millions of dollars after persuading them to make shady investments. Brazil’s federal police estimate the total fraud at 12 billion reais, roughly $2.3 billion. …