8/31/09 – Matier and Ross – San Francisco Chronicle – Chevron’s explosive charges in Ecuador fight

“Chevron’s explosive charges in Ecuador fight”
Matier and Ross – San Francisco Chronicle, August 31, 2009
“San Ramon-based Chevron has just gone public with potentially explosive videotapes it says implicate an Ecuadoran judge overseeing an long-running environmental lawsuit against the company in a bribery scheme. One video, which Chevron turned over today to officials in Ecuador and the United States (and posted on the company’s Web site) appears to show the judge telling a pair of businessmen looking for oil cleanup contracts in the Amazon that he intends to rule against the energy company, even though the case has not been completed.”
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