Brazil: former presidential candidate Aécio Neves in disgrace Brazil's President Michel Temer defiantly refused to step down Thursday after being put under investigation for allegedly authorizing payment of hush money to a politician imprisoned for corruption. The scandal also reached a key Temer political ally: the now suspended senator Aécio Neves (center-right) and unfortunate candidate of the last presidential election. IMAGES of Neves' house in Brasilia where several members of his party, and the police, visited him