SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian judge has prohibited scores of news media outlets from publishing anything related to a fraud investigation that mentions a governor running for re-election, an electoral court said Monday.
Electoral judge Liberato Povoa ruled last week that 84 media outlets cannot report on the investigation that refers to Carlos Henrique Amorim, the governor of the northern state of Tocantins.
The judge made the ruling because the investigation into alleged fraud on a government contract bidding process has not been completed and is not yet open to the public, so he said the reports were based on information obtained illegally.
Reports published prior to …
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