Steven Donziger, After Winning $9B Judgment Against Chevron, Has Been Under House Arrest for 500 Day

[Judi Lynn]

Steven Donziger, After Winning $9B Judgment Against Chevron, Has Been Under House Arrest for 500 Days Awaiting a Misdemeanor Trial

ADAM KLASFELD Dec 18th, 2020, 7:59 pm



On his 500th day of house arrest, Steven Donziger addresses his supporters through a window of his Upper West Side apartment.

During his early adulthood, Steven Donziger started off his career as a correspondent covering war and politics in El Salvador, Costa Rica, Mexico and Nicaragua. He later went on to defeat Chevron to the tune of more than $9 billion in an Ecuadorean court, in a battle over oil pollution to the Amazon jungle that defined his career.

Now disbarred, criminally prosecuted and vilified by an oil giant, Donziger marked his 500th day under house arrest in a scene straight of out of a Latin American history book: with an address to supporters from a window instead of a balcony.

“I cannot believe that I have talk from seven floors up,” Donziger bellowed through a bullhorn on Friday, to assembled celebrities like Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, New York politician Maria Ordonez, and his star defense attorney Ron Kuby.

Accusing Donziger of obtaining the Ecuadorian judgment through fraud, Chevron countersued in New York and won, in a ruling upheld on appeal.

Donziger, who counts some 55 Nobel laureates and several international law groups among his supporters, maintains his innocence of these allegations and calls himself the target of an enormous corporate retaliation campaign.

More:
https://lawandcrime.com/environment/steven-donziger-after-winning-9b-judgment-against-chevron-has-been-under-house-arrest-for-500-days-awaiting-a-misdemeanor-trial/?utm_source=mostpopular

Please take a moment to scan this page of images, thumbnails with articles concerning the "Chernobyl of the Amazon" to get a better sense of what on earth happened there, to the incredible devastation, and deaths of the indigenous citizens, animals and plant life:

https://tinyurl.com/y7r8pxe7

You really have to see it to believe it.

[Karadeniz]

1. Thanks for sharing this information!

[al bupp]

2. If I didn't know better, I might say this beggars belief

But then, I realize that our judicial system almost always favors those w/ the deeper pockets. This particular instance does, however, seem pretty egregious.

[Duppers]

3. K & R