Novas revelações sobre a parceria do governo dos EUA com a Lava Jato

Agência Pública states, based on a confidential document extracted from Dallagnol's phone, obtained by the Federal Police in Operation Spoofing, that on January 28 and 29, 2016 there was a two-day meeting at the MPF in Rio de Janeiro between members of the Lava Jato task force and members of the SEC, who discussed the agreement to divide the Petrobras fine funds, including 'what would be the acceptable destinations' and how the Brazilians could use the money. The report reads the episode as one more indication that the Lava Jato Foundation was part of the talks with the Americans.

Excerpt: “quais seriam os destinos aceitáveis”

Source: Novas revelações sobre a parceria do governo dos EUA com a Lava Jato — Agência Pública, Dec. 2, 2025 · paragraphs 1 and 2 of the article · open original ↗

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Limitations: Document not examined; not linked in the text read. The connection with the foundation is the report's reading. The article does not publish a response from Dallagnol or the MPF.

According to Pública, on the Brazilian side the meeting was attended by prosecutors Deltan Dallagnol, Paulo Galvão, Diogo Castor de Mattos, Roberson Henrique Pozzobon, Laura Gonçalves Tessler and Vladimir Aras; the SEC group included lawyers Spencer Bendell, Kara Brockmeyer, Lance Jasper, Samantha Martin, Jonathan Scott and Carlos Costa Rodrigues. Dallagnol is named by the source as a participant.

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Limitations: Matches the agenda. The report calls the Americans 'lawyers' and says the group 'included' these names (list possibly not exhaustive). Individual positions not given.

According to Pública, at the meeting of January 28-29, 2016 the Americans learned of other inquiries involving American employees of companies under investigation (Braskem, Ensco/Pride, Vintage Drilling, Sargeant Marine); prosecutor Laura Tessler presented an overview of the evidence on the Transoceanic Highway and the Pasadena Refinery case. The report recalls that Dilma Rousseff, investigated in the Pasadena case, was later cleared.

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Limitations: Document not examined. Content as given by the report.

Pública cites an interview with lawyer Lance Jasper (then with the SEC, now a partner at a private firm in Los Angeles, according to the article) on the audio series 'Confidential – The FBI's Fingerprints on Lava Jato': in his view, the Petrobras case was not a typical FCPA case; corruption at the oil company became a U.S. problem when the company sold US$10 billion in securities; and there was no strategic interest on the part of the American government in the partnership with Lava Jato.

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Limitations: Audio interview not listened to; only the article's text. Recorded for balance, since it counters the reading of American strategic interest.

Pública states that the January 2016 meeting was the third between the task force and the U.S. government recorded by the leaked documents, and that the first (October 6-9, 2015) was 'carried out illegally' because it was not notified to or approved by the Ministry of Justice — a characterization by the outlet, contested by the task force in 2020.

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Limitations: The report does not identify the second meeting. Contradicting account: fonte.

According to Pública (2025), a visa list sent by Itamaraty to Deputy Ivan Valente shows that FBI agents Michele Marie Tucker and Michael Roderick came to Brazil from September 14 to 18, 2015, in the care of legal attaché Steven L. Moore, who reportedly took part in the visit to the MPF headquarters in Curitiba; other FBI agents (Deborah Ann Washington, Christopher Joseph Sedmak) and Thimothy S. Pack, described as an 'FBI employee', came between September and October 2015 to assist the attaché.

Source: Novas revelações sobre a parceria do governo dos EUA com a Lava Jato — Agência Pública, Dec. 2, 2025 · section 'FBI agents' · open original ↗

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Limitations: Itamaraty list not examined (Pública says it publishes it in full; not opened in this research). Dallagnol is not cited in this passage. The date of Moore's visit to Curitiba is not given.

According to Pública (2025), the Itamaraty list records that FBI agents Mark Schweers and Jeff Pfeiffer obtained visas to go to Curitiba between October 3 and 10, 2015; SEC lawyers Spencer Evan Bendell and Lance Jasper also came to Brazil the same week for the Curitiba visit, and were not on the official list delivered by Deltan Dallagnol to the PGR.

Source: Novas revelações sobre a parceria do governo dos EUA com a Lava Jato — Agência Pública, Dec. 2, 2025 · section 'FBI agents', third paragraph · open original ↗

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Limitations: Documents not examined. The 'official list delivered by Dallagnol to the PGR' is described by the report and was not seen. It relates to the October 7, 2015 message in which Dallagnol says the list of agencies 'doesn't include SEC' (fonte); the connection is an observation of this version of the collection, not of Pública.

According to Pública (2025), the Itamaraty list records the entry of FBI agent Leslie Backschies between July 14 and 18, 2017 and the presence, from August 12 to 16, 2017, of DOJ prosecutor Mark Edward Bini in São Paulo 'in the care of Deltan Dallagnol'.

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Limitations: Document not examined. 'In the care of Deltan Dallagnol' is the report's description of the list, not a statement by him. The report says Backschies's visit was shortly before the Petrobras agreement 'in September 2017', but the agreement was on September 26, 2018 according to Pública of 2020: internal discrepancy in the source.

Pública (2025) states that Dallagnol's presentation at Harvard University in April 2016, recovered from files on his phone, describes the origin of Lava Jato in the monitoring of currency dealers ('hawala dealers'), a topic of interest to the American government according to a diplomatic cable leaked by WikiLeaks, and accuses Lula of being part of the 'real criminal scheme'. The cover of the PDF published by Pública reads 'Deltan Martinazzo Dallagnol, Leading Federal Prosecutor, Lava Jato Task Force, Federal Prosecution Service – Brazil; Harvard University, Boston, MA – April/2016'.

Source: Novas revelações sobre a parceria do governo dos EUA com a Lava Jato — Agência Pública, Dec. 2, 2025 · section 'Hawala Dealers'; PDF cover (source:f09b-publica-ppt-harvard-2016) · open original ↗

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Limitations: Only the cover and the first pages of the PDF had text extracted; the file is mostly images. Content about Lula and currency dealers not read in the slides. Item 7 of the agenda outside scope; recorded only as context for the article.