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Per coverage at the time, Donziger and his team argued that a company Chevron purchased dumped “18 billion gallons of toxic waste… leading to 1,000-plus deaths from cancer and to ecological damage beyond repair.” In a landmark 2013 victory, courts in Ecuador ordered Chevron pay $9.5 billion in damages.

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Living-Green/2009/0529/chevron-fights-massive-lawsuit-in-ecuador

anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖 2y ago

Chevron responded by suing Donziger in the U.S. for $60 billion — for scale, that’s roughly one Koch brother. The Intercept and others have noted that Chevron’s case against Steven hinged on a witness that Chevron had paid “hundreds of thousands” of dollars, and a judge with “a soft spot” for the oil company. Though damages were dropped, Donziger was found guilty, disbarred, imprisoned, placed on house arrest, and remains unable to leave the country.

https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-steven-donziger/

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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖 2y ago

The legal moves Chevron has made against Donziger are no laughing matter. On the other hand, their attempts to beat him down in the court of public opinion are… different.

“They had to create a fake narrative,” said Donziger. “At that point, they really crossed the line in terms of the things they started do… to lie, to deceive the public, to deceive journalists and their own employees.”