Buratti Fails to Show Proof

Rogerio Buratti, an ex-aide to Brazilian Finance Minister Antonio Palocci, told a congressional committee he based statements that his former boss took bribes solely on information from a friend, Ralf Barquette, who has since died. Buratti told prosecutors last week that Palocci received about $20,000 a month in bribes from a city trash collector when he was mayor of Ribeirao Preto.