Chevron's Plan to Evade $18b Ecuador Liability Falters
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"Documents recently obtained via U.S. discovery actions shows that Chevron engaged in extensive acts of corruption and fraud in Ecuador. Chevron doctored soil samples to mislead the Ecuador court and used a secret lab to hide evidence of toxic contamination; paid $2.2 million in hush money to a man who threatened to expose the company's corruption in the Ecuador trial; tried to entrap an Ecuadorian judge with secret video recordings, and used U.S.-based experts to lie to the Ecuador court about the company's deceptive field sampling."
"Chevron is already facing likely criminal charges in Brazil -- a country with enormous reserves coveted by the company -- for lying about its recent spill off the coast of Rio province."\
"Chevron simply cannot change the fact its horrific contamination in Ecuador is visible to the naked eye and has been confirmed by journalists and courts the world over," she added. "The evidence is so overwhelming that no amount of trickery can save the day for Chevron at this point"
Contact: Karen Hinton, 703-798-3109, Karen@hintoncommunications.com
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