In dramatic testimony, a New York attorney testified Thursday that he dropped involvement in an environmental case against the oil company after learning that a key “independent,” court-appointed expert’s report had been secretly ghostwritten by the team’s U.S. lawyers and consultants.
“It was a shocking event and I remember it clearly,” Jeff Shinder testified Thursday at Chevron’s civil racketeering suit against Steve Donziger, the environmental lawyer who won a $19 billion judgment against the oil company in Ecuador in 2011.
