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Article: Amazon Defense Coalition: Criminal Indictment of Chevron Lawyers in Ecuador Based on Wide Body of Scientific Evidence.
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- September 15, 2008
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Seven Ecuadorian Government Officials Also Charged with Conspiring with Chevron to Falsify Remediation Results
Company Hit with Multiple Scandals in Matter of Days
QUITO, Ecuador -- A criminal indictment in Ecuador against two Chevron lawyers, one an executive vice-president, is based on scientific evidence that the oil giant conspired with Ecuadorian government officials to falsify the results of an environmental clean-up to escape a potential multi-billion dollar civil liability pending in U.S. federal court.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the ongoing civil trial, which alleges Texaco (now Chevron) dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste ...