The forum shopping by Chevron's General Counsel R. Hewitt Pate in Gibraltar to evade the company's $10 billion Ecuador liability seems to have backfired. We understand the desperation: largely under Pate's watch Chevron has spent an estimated $2 billion on 2,000 lawyers and 60 law firms in a futile attempt to fend off impoverished villagers...
Monday, December 21, 2015
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
The Real Facts About Gibraltar: Chevron's Lies Boosted by Paul Barrett of Businessweek
Chevron's illusory $28 million judgment for legal fees against an empty shell investment vehicle owned by Ecuadorian villagers in the tiny protectorate of Gibraltar is worthless -- despite the attempt by Bloomberg's Paul Barrett to build it up with his incomplete and dishonest reporting.
After largely ignoring the stunning legal setbacks to Chevron...
Media Outlets: Chevron Polluted the Crap Out of Ecuador's Amazon Rainforest
According to numerous independent media outlets, Chevron indeed polluted the crap out of Ecuador's Amazon region.
We have long known that three layers of courts and eight appellate judges in Ecuador unanimously confirmed Chevron's responsibility for causing the extensive oil pollution found in the affected area. Less known is the array of respected...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Chevron Enlists Convicted Felon Conrad Black to Help Its Defense in Canada
With evidence against it in the Ecuador pollution case mounting, Chevron has turned to none other than convicted felon and former media titan Conrad Black to help it try to block indigenous villagers from enforcing their environmental judgment in Canada.
A few days ago Black published an op-ed article in Canada that repeated Chevron's talking...
Monday, November 16, 2015
Chevron Paying Income Taxes and Salary of Corrupt Witness Who Committed Perjury in Ecuador Case
Without public disclosure, Chevron has re-upped its contract to pay $144,000 annually to former Ecuadorian judge Alberto Guerra after he admitted perjuring himself in a federal court during the company's RICO trial. The perjury happened after Chevron lawyers at the outside law firm Gibson Dunn coached Guerra on his false testimony for 53 consecutive...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Businessweek's Paul Barrett Ignores Spectacular Implosion of Chevron's RICO Case
Businessweek reporter Paul Barrett is again taking Chevron's side in the Ecuador pollution litigation by failing to report on the spectacular implosion of the company's RICO case. Readers of Businessweek interested in the latest news on the litigation are getting shortchanged.
We previously reported how Barrett generally frames his stories about the...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Chevron's Academic Corruption Over Ecuador Pollution Spreads to NYU School of Law
Chevron's recruitment of academics to promote the oil giant's increasingly hapless attempts to defend its Ecuador pollution disaster appears to have compromised the ethics of two more professors at a prominent institution of higher learning. This time, the credibility blow handed out by Chevron is being suffered by New York University.
We recently...
Friday, October 9, 2015
Ricardo Reis Veiga: The Architect of Chevron's Fraud In Ecuador
Chevron CEO John Watson is the one person ultimately responsible for his company's refusal to abide by the rule of law and pay a $9.5 billion court judgment for toxic dumping in Ecuador's rainforest.
But we cannot forget...
Monday, October 5, 2015
Chevron's Defense In Canada: The Abusive Litigation Strategy Continues
As we predicted, Chevron's jurisdictional shell game to evade its legal obligations to the people of Ecuador has now hit the courts of Canada with full force.
One might remember statements by various Chevron officials a few years ago that the company planned to fight the villagers it poisoned in Ecuador until "hell freezes over, and then skate it...
Friday, September 25, 2015
Chevron's Forum Shopping Over Ecuador Pollution Hits Dead End In Canada
It is widely known that Chevron has acted as a serial forum shopper when it comes to trying to evade its liability for creating an environmental disaster in Ecuador's Amazon. But Chevron's game of corporate subterfuge and litigation is clearly unraveling, spelling huge new risks for company shareholders.
In short, Chevron CEO John Watson's billion-dollar...
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