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Zorro (3,699 posts)







Former Ecuador judge on Chevron case says plaintiffs bribed court





 A former Ecuadorean judge has claimed that after stepping down from the bench, he illegally ghostwrote a judgment in which Chevron was ordered to pay $18.2 billion (11.5 billion pounds) for polluting the rain forest, and that the plaintiffs paid a $500,000 bribe to the judge who issued the ruling.
 
Alberto Guerra, who presided over the case from 2003 to 2004, made the allegations in a sworn statement filed by Chevron on Monday in support of a lawsuit in Manhattan federal district court accusing the Ecuadorean plaintiffs and their lawyers of fraud.
 
"Another participant in the fraud has now come forward rather than wait to be exposed by others," Hewitt Pate, Chevron vice president and general counsel, said in a statement.
 
Karen Hinton, a spokeswoman for the plaintiffs, in a statement called Guerra a "disgraced former Ecuadorean judge who is being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by Chevron to make false allegations about the Ecuador trial court judgment."
 
More at: http://news.yahoo.com/former-ecuador-judge-chevron-case-says-plaintiffs-bribed-025841619--finance.html

Downwinder (6,606 posts)

1. Chevron's choice of Courts.

newfie11 (2,965 posts)

2. All oil companies are crooks

Money buys anything they want including judges

drdtroit (1,621 posts)

3. And how much did Chevron pay for THAT statement?

Peace Patriot (21,264 posts)

4. I agree with the skeptics above. Chevron is the dirty player here....

...not the thousands of Indigenous tribespeople whose lives Chevron destroyed. And Chevron will stop at nothing to slander and ruin the second Ecuadoran judge in the case, the one who ruled against them.
 
I'm reminded of my "rule of thumb" for Bushwhacks: Whatever they say, the opposite is true; and whatever crimes they accuse others of committing, they have committed or are planning to commit. This "rule of thumb" helped me untangle many Bushwhack lies and crimes. It is applicable to the scum from which they crawled into power over our government and our military: transglobal corporate oil monsters.
 
So, applying my "rule of thumb": Chevron is the one guilty of bribery. And I'm sure time will bear this out. The filthy scum, bloated with money and power, who are running Chevron, will be exposed. They are irredeemable liars.

Zorro (3,699 posts)

5. Chevron has been hoisted on its own petard

They were the ones that requested the change of venue to Ecuador, no doubt thinking they could minimize their losses by bribing the judge. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for justice to be served that way throughout many countries in South America. But I have little doubt that the plaintiffs also bribed the judge for a favorable ruling.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11088677

Liberal Adjudication:

"Chevron is dirty!"

"How do you know?"

"Look what they did in Ecuador!"

"But the judge admitted to being bribed."

"You can't believe that!"

"Why not?"

"Because Chevron is dirty!"

Rinse. Repeat.

It's the same MO they used on Bush and Cheney.

It would be better to drive the nation into civil war than allow thugs like this to hold any power.

[Vagabond]

A company should go in with the plan of being as clean as possible and should have a plan in place for restoring the environment when it leaves.  I'm not an environmentalist, but I think stewardship has to have a place in planning.  If that means that a company's efforts surpass local laws, then so much the better.

I've seen evidence of what Chevron did, and they deserved to have to pay for their negligence in that case.  There is no way that leaving stand pools of industrial chemicals is following good stewardship.