Aécio Neves's Party of Brazilian Social Democracy has been hit by evidence of bribery and overbilling on public contracts in its heartland state of São Paulo.
Earlier that month AFIP announced that it had suspended Procter & Gamble's operations in the country for allegedly overbilling $138m in imported hygienic products to avoid taxes and get dollars out of the country.P&G since seems to have resumed its business in Argentina.
It denies any wrongdoing, but Mr Scott has resigned while a posse of investigators looks into allegations that, among other abuses, the company has been overbilling the federal government.
And even some of these have been suspected of overbilling their federal paymasters.As for the information imbalance, there is no reason why this should matter more in for-profit hospitals.
Most of the complaints it cited were about overbilling, not poor coverage.
Allegations of overbilling and kickbacks when he was mayor of São Paulo in the 1990s had been circulating for years, though he was found guilty only last year by a court in Jersey, in his absence.
In the saga's most recent chapter, Tenet filed a lawsuit accusing Community of overbilling government and private health-insurance schemes.
Paulo Maluf, found guilty of overbilling and taking kickbacks in the 1990s as São Paulo's mayor, is so notorious that malufar has entered the Portuguese language, meaning "to steal from public funds".
Take one popular scam: overbilling for HIV infusion, an outdated therapy that Medicare still covers despite the existence of cheaper, better alternatives.
Mr Githongo almost immediately spotted a massive scam, to be known after a murky company called Anglo-Leasing, that creamed off some $750m mainly by overbilling the state with ministerial connivance in some 18 projects.
Federal officials had said the state had been overbilling Medicaid for the institutional care.
