Post by account_disabled on Mar 7, 2024 1:32:21 GMT -7
The National Justice Council's spending will be more controlled from this week onwards. The body published, on Tuesday (/), ordinance which prohibits the payment of daily allowances, tickets and travel to counselors and employees who participate in events without representing the body.
According to the new rule, there will only be reimbursement, with the express authorization of the president of the CNJ, if the employee has institutionally represented the Council. The ordinance, signed by President Cezar Peluso, says that it is necessary to "discipline the granting of daily allowances and transportation expenses", and that there must be "compatibility between the reason for the displacement and the public interest".
Recently, a survey by the non-governmental organization BTC Number Data Contas Abertas showed that there was an increase in CNJ expenses with tickets and daily allowances. Until August of this year, around R$ million was spent on daily allowances in BTC Number Data Brazil and abroad, and almost R$, on parties and tributes. With information from AgĂȘncia Brasil.
However, he did not fall into the net alone. "More than two dozen people were arrested; all convicted; received sentences ranging from a few months to years," says TimeBusiness . Defense lawyers wanted a lesser sentence of to years for Rajaratnam. "More than that, it would be equivalent to a death penalty, given his health conditions", they declared. According to the judge, Rajaratnam suffers from advanced diabetes and needs a kidney transplant. And that led him to consider indulgence.
According to ABC News' Medic Unit website , the defendant's health condition is a factor that judges can consider when setting a sentence. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling ordered federal judges to adopt specific sentencing calculations that can be influenced by other factors, such as the defendant's health.
Rajaratnam's case is not unique among those convicted of white-collar crimes. Bernard Madoff's lawyers asked for a lighter sentence when he was convicted of orchestrating the largest fraud scheme in the history of the American financial system (the "Ponzi scheme"). However, he was sentenced to the maximum sentence: years in prison. John Rigas, one of the founders of Adelphias Communications Corp., was when he was convicted of accounting fraud, heart disease and bladder cancer. His sentence was reduced from to years.