More than half the lawmakers impeaching Brazil’s president have been either convicted or investigated themselves

More than half the lawmakers impeaching Brazil’s president have been either convicted or investigated themselves

After months of hearings in both houses of congress, Brazil’s senate is expected to vote to impeach president Dilma Rousseff tomorrow (Aug. 31). She’s accused of using accounting gimmicks to conceal the size of the country’s deficit, so she could pump up social spending to win-re-election in 2014. But even some senators have complained about…