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Steven Donziger: The Lefty Media Come to the Aid of History’s Champion Scammer

Have you heard about the big pity party? It’s ongoing, virtual, and being held in honor of one Steven Donziger, the schemer extraordinaire and disbarred lawyer who nearly pulled off the legal fraud of the century.

Memory shaky? This was an epic bamboozle, where a crusading Big Green lawyer used courts in Ecuador to shake down Chevron for $18 billion. Yes, billion with a b. Sounds like it’s worth celebrating, no?

That intrigue might have worked (and did) in corrupt Quito. But north of the Equator in U.S. courts, the administration of justice finally got the better of the hoodwinking and spotlight-craving attorney, even though he’d been championed by an adoring press. (Donziger had been ballyhooed by 60 Minutes. Heck, even conservatives such as Phelim McAleer and Jonathan Leaf put together a “verbatim theater production” about his ruse, using as dialogue the trial and deposition transcripts from Donziger v. Chevron Corp.)

To read the full story on the National Review, click here.

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Disgraced Chevron Ecuador fraud attorney Steven Donziger’s biggest supporter is now being accused by the U.S. Government of anti-Semitism. Donziger’s list of allies gets more despicable by the day https://t.co/hXcu06rJbD
“At no time while working on the #Ecuador Project did I see any data supporting a finding of groundwater contamination from [Texaco] operations away from the pits,” a scientist hired by #Ecuadorian plaintiffs testified. Full testimony here: https://t.co/ynD1D00MN1 https://t.co/ZZ1Vzv1SIi AmazonPost photo
Falsified reporting of technical findings facilitated #Ecuador #fraud against Chevron, scientist for the #Ecuadorian plaintiffs testified: https://t.co/ynD1D00eXt https://t.co/4ETiia3BC0 AmazonPost photo
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

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