Brazil: Top Meat Company Says Temer Received Bribes Since 2010

Joesley Batista, owner of Brazilian meat company JBS, confessed Friday that de-facto President Michel Temer had requested and received bribes from his company since 2010.

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Batista, the protagonist of a wiretapping scandal incriminating the unelected Brazilian leader, exposed the revelation to the Brazilian attorney general's office.

Batista claims he paid Temer roughly US$1 million in 2010 alone. Another US$921,000 was requested by the battered president in 2012 in order to support Gabriel Chalita's bid to become mayor of Sao Paulo.

Batista also claimed that during the impeachment process against ousted former President Dilma Rousseff, Temer requested a payment of more than US$85,000 dollars for political marketing expenditures online.

After the infamous recording of a conversation between Batista and Temer was made public Thursday, analysts across the political spectrum have deemed the president's position as compromised.

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Temer has repeated that he has no intention of resigning. Contrarily, he's considering a lawsuit against the owner of JBS in order to strengthen his defense, Globo News reported.

Notwithstanding bribes spanning several years, Batista also claimed that Temer agreed to make secret payments to Eduardo Cunha, former speaker of Brazil's lower house of representatives, in order to silent embarrassing political secrets that could damage the current government.

Cunha is currently imprisoned for 15 years on charges of money laundering and tax evasion.