Brazil’s institutional rift deepened this week as Prosecutor General (PGR) Paulo Gonet moved to nullify a Federal Police (PF) report that exposed private contacts between a jailed banker accused of massive fraud and senior government officials, including a powerful Supreme Court Justice. Gonet, who heads the Federal Public Ministry, argued that the investigation, ordered by Supreme Court (STF) Justice André Mendonça, was conducted outside of the proper legal framework. This unprecedented maneuver pits the head of the country’s top judicial prosecutor against a Justice of the nation’s highest court, raising questions about judicial independence and escalating political risk.