It was a project so simple even an undergraduate could do it. But what Maria Aparecida de Oliveira, a student at the University of Brasilia, learned in the $ course of her research was enough to send all Brazil into a furor. She found that nearly half the country's 570 Deputies and Senators have relatives squirreled away on the government payroll, many of them in cushy, high-paying jobs. Worst-case abusers included a former Senate president who provided jobs for at least nine family members, and a Deputy who hired his wife and three daughters.
News of such nepotism hardly came as...
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