Denise Frossard
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Denise Frossard Loschi (
She was the trial judge who on May 14, 1993, convicted 14 notorious racketeers who control the lucrative
"The animal game is a deeply embedded cultural phenomenon with a certain romantic aura, and thus hard to eradicate," according to Frossard. "But it is also a quintessentially Brazilian way of laundering money and contributes greatly to the problem of impunity in this country."[5] Judge Frossard was subjected to pressures from both the political establishment and the Judiciary itself and her life has been threatened. She has been the target of assassination attempts that she attributes to hired guns in the pay of game kingpins.[5] A former military policeman allegedly received an offer of US$270,000 (R$1 million) to kill Frossard, but was arrested before he could commit the murder.[6]
After the judgment in 1993, she spent a year in the United States, returning to head the Brazilian branches of Transparency International and the Women's Bank.
In 2002, she was elected as federal representative for the
In 2005 she received the Medalha Tiradentes by the
References
- ^ a b Last Samba for Brazil's Powerful Lottery Lords?, Los Angeles Times, May 25, 1993
- ^ (in Portuguese) Contraventores já foram condenados há 14 anos, O Globo online, April 13, 2007
- ^ Frossard, Denise. "Women in Organized Crime in Brazil", in Fiandaca, Giovanni (ed.). Women and the Mafia. Springer, 2007.
- ^ For Crime Lords, Rio Samba A Bit More Somber, Chicago Tribune, February 13, 1994
- ^ a b Brazilian Numbers Game Ties Officials to Mobsters, by Larry Rohter, The New York Times, June 7, 2007
- ^ Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2002, Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US State Department, March 31, 2003
- ^ (in Portuguese) Denise Frossard atribui derrota à aliança entre Garotinho e Alckmin[permanent dead link], Agência Brasil, October 29, 2006
- ^ (in Portuguese) Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio de Janeiro Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, November 29, 2005