Operation Car Wash, or Lava Jato, is widely regarded as the biggest corruption investigation in history, but its impartiality has been called into question. For this week’s interview on Trend Lines, Michael Mohallem joins WPR’s Elliot Waldman to discuss the questions surrounding Lava Jato’s legacy.

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