Dow Jones – E-mails Released By Chevron In Ecuador Case Are Real-Lawyer
Date: Sep 22, 2009
[archive-title]“E-mails Released By Chevron In Ecuador Case Are Real-Lawyer”
Dow Jones, September 21, 2009[/archive-title]
“San Ramon, Calif.-based Chevron released the e-mails earlier this month, saying that they outlined instructions to two businessmen – one from Ecuador and one from the U.S. – for the payment of a $3 million bribe to ruling party officials in exchange for a government contract to do clean-up in Ecuador’s Lago Agrio region. Such a contract would only be needed if the court rules against Chevron in the decades-long, multibillion-dollar litigation over contamination from oil production in the Amazon.”
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