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Article: Felon involved in clandestine videos in Ecuador
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- AP Worldstream
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- October 29, 2009
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A man who made clandestine video recordings used to discredit Ecuador in a $27 billion oil contamination lawsuit is a convicted felon with a history of legal troubles, The Associated Press has learned.
An AP investigation also has found no evidence that Wayne Douglas Hansen ever worked in his professed field of environmental remediation.
Hansen was one of two men who used spy cameras in a watch and a pen to videotape a judge in the lawsuit against Chevron Corp. Chevron released the images in August, saying they prove it can't get a fair trial in Ecuador and that the lawsuit over contamination in the Amazon rain forest should be dismissed.
Chevron says it had no prior ...