Chevron's Views
And Opinions On
The Ecuador Lawsuit.
Chevron's Views
And Opinions On
The Ecuador Lawsuit.
How much money does it take to perpetuate the Chevron Ecuador fraud? Well, let’s ask Ecuador or in Twitter lingo #AskEcuador! Of course, Ecuador President Rafael Correa will yell at you, but let’s #AskEcuador anyway! Read more >>
Even 60 Minutes has done a mea culpa for its 2009 hit piece on Chevron, now rightly collecting scalps over a concocted and failed left-wing scheme to fleece the oil giant via bogus charges of polluting rainforests in Ecuador. With a recent federal court ruling that the scheme’s mastermind, leftist trial lawyer Steven Donziger, had blatantly violated RICO anti-racketeering statutes, you’d think all the far-flung parties to this debacle (which have included hedge funds and the likes of D.C. lobbying firm Patton Boggs) would have headed for the tall grass. Read more >>
Donziger’s accusing anyone else of unethical conduct seems ironic. Read more >>
Chevron Corporation has never lacked for targets in its crusade against claims that it fouled Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest. On Friday the oil giant’s wrath fell on the highly pedigreed litigation consulting company H5, which it hopes to milk for information against yet another Chevron foe—the Gibraltar-based billionaire Russell DeLeon. Read more >>
The move by Patton Boggs comes after a scathing U.S. District Court ruling in March which said that the Ecuadorean judgment was obtained by “corrupt means.” The District Court decision also found that a New York lawyer who spearheaded the case for the plaintiffs, Steven Donziger, and others had engaged in bribery, fraud and racketeering. Read more >>
Chevron claimed another high-profile scalp today as the Washington law firm Patton Boggs agreed to pay $15 million and granted Chevron extraordinary rights to question two of its partners in a settlement of litigation over a $9.5 billion environmental judgment against the oil giant in Ecuador. Read more >>
But in Friday’s order, Kaplan said Donziger’s arguments for a stay were largely “without merit.” Donziger’s “claims of irreparable injury rest on a pastiche of unsupported assertions, contradictions of undisputed evidence and fertile imagination,” Kaplan’s opinion said. Read more >>
MANHATTAN (CN) – A federal judge showed no patience Friday for the lawyer whom he blasted last month for using …
Last month, a federal court in Manhattan found that a U.S. plaintiffs’ lawyer had masterminded a multibillion dollar fraud and extortion scheme against Chevron in Ecuador. Three days later, a California appellate court affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit against Dole as a “fraud on the court” perpetrated by U.S. and Nicaraguan plaintiffs’ lawyers. These rulings are welcome news not only for the companies involved, but also to anyone who cares about justice and the reliability of our legal system. Read more >>
Chevron Corp. on Monday reiterated a demand for $32 million in attorneys’ fees it spent discrediting an Ecuadorian court’s $9.5 billion pollution judgment, contending that its victory on racketeering claims against opposing attorney Steven Donziger triggers a fee award automatically. Read more >>
A federal judge in New York last month issued an order barring Mr. Donziger and the Ecuadorean villagers he represented from collecting in the United States on a $9 billion judgment by an Ecuadorean court against the oil giant, saying the verdict was the result of “egregious fraud.” Read more >>
Having been found by a U.S. Federal Court to have violated federal racketeering laws, Steven Donziger and his supporters are …
