Gibson Dunn’s Randy Mastro questions Judge Nicolas Zambrano of Ecuador, who wrote the 19 billion dollar judgement against Chevron. Zambrano wore a red hat (with snake eyes) a scarf, overcoat and thick gloves. He also sipped hot tea while he testified via an interpreter.
Judge Zambrano testified on the witness stand this week (while wearing a red hat, scarf, gloves and an overcoat,) that he wrote the ruling alone, two weeks after another judge testified that he had been paid to ghostwrite much of the decision.Two weeks ago another former Ecuadorean judge, Alberto Guerra, said he accepted $1,000 a month from a lawyer representing the villagers to ghostwrite Zambrano’s rulings. Guerra also said Donziger was aware of the arrangement.
