Overview

• Brazil's chief prosecutor filed a coercion charge alleging Eduardo Bolsonaro threatened to obtain U.S. sanctions to "hinder and ruin" officials' civilian lives if rulings did not go his way.
• Prosecutors also charged blogger Paulo Renato Figueiredo Filho, alleging the pair orchestrated successive actions to intervene in the proceedings.
• On the same day, the U.S. Treasury froze the assets and the visa of Justice Alexandre de Moraes's wife, Viviane Barci de Moraes, and targeted family-linked firm Lex, steps announced after Jair Bolsonaro’s 27-year conviction.
• The Brazilian government denounced the U.S. measures as undue interference in internal affairs, and Justice de Moraes called the sanctions on his wife illegal and deplorable.
• Eduardo Bolsonaro, who has lobbied in the United States for penalties on Brazilian judicial figures, rejected the case as bogus and said the timing with new U.S. actions shows political persecution.