#StevenDonziger, a US attorney, classmate of Barack Obama at Harvard law, gave up everything — literally everything — to take on Chevron on behalf of the Cofan people of the Amazon in Ecuador. #FreeDonziger gregpalast.com/facing-prison-…
An Ecuadorian court ordered Chevron to pay $9.5 billion, finding that the oil giant's Texaco operation had illegally dumped 16 billion gallons of deadly oil waste. It’s been a decade, and Chevron still hasn’t paid a dime. #BigOil #Pollution #ClimateChange gregpalast.com/facing-prison-…
But @SDonziger has paid big time: For the last two years, he’s been under house arrest, longer than any American in history never convicted of a crime. #FreeDonziger gregpalast.com/facing-prison-…
But weeks ago, @SDonziger was convicted of contempt by a judge who denied him a jury. (The Constitution? Faggedaboudit.) And on October 8, this contemptible judge will sentence Donziger, and could put him behind bars. #FreeDonziger gregpalast.com/facing-prison-…
Who was the prosecutor? Not the US government, but Chevron’s law firm. The first-ever criminal prosecution by a US corporation.
Say what?
I can’t make this up! gregpalast.com/facing-prison-…
#FreeDonziger #StevenDonziger #BigOil #Pollution #Environment #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Say what?
I can’t make this up! gregpalast.com/facing-prison-…
#FreeDonziger #StevenDonziger #BigOil #Pollution #Environment #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Chevron also went after journalists, in one case, filing a complaint against the BBC TV reporter that broke the story that Chevron had destroyed key evidence in the case. I was that reporter. Here’s the story, broadcast by BBC.
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