Brazil’s President Assails His Accuser as Corruption Scandal Intensifies<br />Mr. Temer also claimed on Saturday that Mr. Batista’s recording of their meeting one evening in March at the president’s residence in the capital, Brasília, had been "manipulated<br />and adulterated." Mr. Temer said he was issuing a request to the Supreme Court to suspend the investigation into him.<br />Paulo said that This does not reduce the political crisis and does not improve Temer’s situation,<br />Mr. Batista said that He committed the perfect crime,<br />Mr. Temer contended that Mr. Batista, 44, an heir to the JBS global beef empire, profited immensely from currency<br />and stock trades in the days before the recording was made public.<br />Calls for the president to resign have intensified since Brazil’s prosecutor general said Mr. Temer was facing an investigation<br />into claims he received millions of dollars in illicit payments and sought to obstruct an anticorruption drive.<br />Allies of Mr. Temer have been forced to resign over claims<br />that they tried to stymie corruption inquiries, but Mr. Temer has had some success in persuading lawmakers to approve austerity measures aimed at shoring up confidence in the economy.<br />According to testimony released by the Supreme Court, executives at JBS said<br />that Mr. Temer received about $4.6 million in illegal campaign contributions in 2014, when he ran for vice president on Ms. Rousseff’s ticket, and pocketed some of the money for himself.
