Federal Police investigators opened three separate lines of inquiry into Fábio Luís Lula da Silva, the president's son, in six days. Then they raided the relatives of a senator close to Senate President Davi Alcolumbre. By Tuesday night, Lula and the Senate president — who had not spoken since April — were sitting in a Supreme Court justice's living room, patching things up.
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