Brazil's top prosecutor, Raquel Dodge, said Vale should be held responsible and criminally prosecuted.
A French prosecutor has also launched a preliminary investigation into Apple's alleged deception and planned obsolescence of its products.
The news of the defective medals comes in light of many Olympic venues in Rio deteriorating quickly after the Games, with a federal prosecutor recently saying that the venues are "white elephants" that were built with "no planning" for usage after the Olympics.
Brown, who played prosecutor Christopher Darden in The People v OJ Simpson, beat his co-stars John Travolta and David Schwimmer to win best supporting actor in a limited series or movie.
The French prosecutor is also investigating allegations of bribes to cover up positive Russian doping tests by the IAAF when Lamine Diack was president.
In response to the Westfries' effort to publicize the case, the Ukrainian national police chief, Khatia Dekanoidze, said she was waiting for an official request from the Dutch prosecutor general's office to begin to coordinate an investigation.
State prosecutor Erich Habitzl confirmed the discovery -- first reported in the Kurier daily -- but said that there was nothing he could do for the relatives.
Faced with the prospect of a long prison sentence if they were convicted, 97 per cent of those facing US federal trials agreed to a plea bargain, confessed their guilt and accepted a shorter sentence "effectively dictated by the prosecutor", Judge Rakoff wrote.
And one Michigan prosecutor wants an ordinance passed to send parents who miss parent-teacher conferences to jail for three days a pop.
" Lieu is running against gang prosecutor Elan Carr to replace U.
