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Article: The big slip-up: documentary turns Dole foe into hero despite evidence that he fabricated facts of court case.(Dole Food Co. Inc.)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 8, 2009
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A new documentary called "Bananas!" follows a crusading lawyer as he represents Nicaraguan banana plantation workers who say they were made sterile by a pesticide that Dole Food Co. Inc. used on its farms.
But there's one problem with the movie, which is to make its world premiere this month at the Los Angeles Film Festival: A judge found that the supposedly heroic lawyer actually took part in a massive fraud against Dole, the Westlake Village food giant. The judge said the supposed victims weren't sterile and had never even worked on Dole's banana farms.
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Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ...