Chevron General Counsel Distorts Arbitration Ruling to Hide $19 Billion Ecuador Liability

  Reporters Get Sucked In By Chevron’s Spin R. Hewitt Pate, Chevron’s General Counsel, faces a series of cascading problems relating to the company’s $19 billion Ecuador liability.   That might explain his irrational exuberance last week over an inconsequential ruling in favor of Chevron issued by a private investor...

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Chevron Imports The Great Ted Olson to Save Its RICO Case

Signs of More Serious Trouble For Oil Giant As It Tries to Evade Ecuador Judgment   There is now more evidence Chevron is running scared about its retaliatory New York RICO case filed against Ecuadorian villagers and one of their lawyers, New York attorney Steven R. Donziger.   The great Republican lawyer Theodore Olson – who argued...

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Bribery Bombshell Threatens Chevron Legal Strategy In Ecuador Case

Late last week, lawyer Steven Donziger and the Ecuadorian villagers who have fought for decades to force Chevron to clean up its poisonous mess in their rainforest lands filed a motion in U.S. Federal court that could spell an end to the oil giant's legal maneuverings and attempts to evade responsibility for its toxic legacy in the Amazon. According...

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Ahead of Trial, Chevron Drops $60 Billion Damages Claim Against Ecuadorians in RICO Suit; Maneuvering to Avoid Airing of its Crimes in Ecuador

In a clear 11th-hour retreat that suggests it does not believe its own allegations, Chevron has taken the extraordinary step of pleading with a U.S. judge to block a jury from deciding its retaliatory “fraud” and RICO claims against Ecuadorian villagers and their U.S. lawyer. The company also said it was even prepared to drop a $60 billion damages...

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