The Lawyer for Brazil’s Troubled Billionaire Banker Wants to Talk

By Vanessa Dezem and Jessica Brice, Bloomberg News

Antonio Carlos de Almeida Castro loves to talk. At 58, he’s the criminal defense attorney of the rich and powerful in Brazil and he wants everyone to know it.

Almost nothing in his three-decade career, from the biggest scandal to the smallest backroom deal, is off limits during a rambling interview spread out over two days and two cities. There’s the tale of how he helped take down a president; and then the one about the meeting he arranged to score a Supreme Court seat for a colleague; and who could forget the ...