Bloomberg Businessweek – Lawyer Describes Fraud, Lies, and Acrimony in $19 Billion Chevron Case
Date: Nov 5, 2013
Since its founding 40 years ago, Kohn, Swift & Graf has earned a national reputation for filing sophisticated class-action lawsuits against major corporations. It says so right on the Philadelphia law firm’s website. In humiliating testimony on Nov. 4 in federal court in New York, Joseph Kohn claimed that in the course of representing residents of the Ecuadorian rainforest in litigation against the oil industry, he and his firm were serially defrauded—not by a corporate foe, but by a fellow plaintiffs’ attorney.
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