“Jackpot Justice Goes Global”
By Vince Vitkowsky – Real Clear Markets, August 5, 2009
“To avoid U.S. courts and their requirements of real evidence, some attorneys prefer litigation in other countries, in which the rule of law is weak and manufactured evidence is more readily accepted. An example is the case against Chevron in Ecuador” … “A federal court in the U.S. soundly dismissed the plaintiffs’ allegations against Chevron in a related case, and fined the attorney for fabricating claims of alleged cancer victims. But the plaintiffs have found a far friendlier forum in Ecuador. Reports by the International Bar Association and the U.S. State Department have pointed out that Ecuador’s judicial system has little independence, and that the rule of law there is weak.”
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Falsified reporting of technical findings facilitated #Ecuador #fraud against Chevron, scientist for the #Ecuadorian plaintiffs testified: https://t.co/ynD1D00eXt https://t.co/4ETiia3BC0
Members of indigenous communities in the Amazon in Ecuador would like to know: What happened to the more than $20M reportedly raised on their behalf by now-disbarred NY lawyer Steven Donziger? #FollowtheMoney
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#Factsmatter: An international arbitration panel found ‘no cogent evidence’ supporting #Ecuador’s claim that #Texaco failed to comply with terms of remediation in #Amazon. https://t.co/7TqQ6sJhik
The @WSJ sums this case up nicely, “[Steven Donziger] and his team fabricated evidence, promised $500,000 to an #Ecuadorean judge to rule in their favor, ghostwrote much of the final verdict and took other actions that ‘perverted’ the course of #justice. Mr. Donziger disputes the… https://t.co/soQ1qreULA
Shameless. Disbarred and convicted of criminal contempt of court for bribing an Ecuadorian judge in an attempted extortion scheme, @SDonziger is nonetheless accepting invitations to speak at #climate rallies. Read more about this adjudicated racketeer: https://t.co/5eac0lRmN7
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