Chevron wins $38m from Environmentalists behaving badly: extortion, fraud, witness tampering, corrup

[CrusaderFrank]

Net loss of $17.96 billion for Chevron

You think the award was upheld? That's so adorbs!!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

You are fucking PATHETIC. Show us some evidence of "AGW fraud, in general terms". Let's see some names you believe to be charletons.

Mann's Nature trick, hide the decline, etc

 

[Moonglow]

What does liberalism have to do with a court case over the environment?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

The people involved in this scheme were not environmentalists. They were scammers. Your attempt to besmirch environmentalism with this story is pathetic.

Gibraltar Supreme Court Awards Chevron $38 Million Against Ecuadorian Conspirators
May 25, 2018 06:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time


SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Supreme Court of Gibraltar has issued a judgment against Pablo Fajardo, Luis Yanza, Ermel Chavez, Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia (the “Front”) and Servicios Fromboliere for their role in a conspiracy to procure and attempt to enforce a fraudulent Ecuadorian judgment against Chevron. The court awarded Chevron Corporation $38 million in damages and interest and issued a permanent injunction against the defendants, preventing them from assisting or supporting the case against Chevron in any way.

“In issuing this decision, the Supreme Court is holding the perpetrators of this fraudulent enterprise accountable for their actions”

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Fajardo, Yanza and Chavez are Directors at Amazonia Recovery Ltd. (“Amazonia”), a Gibraltar-based company set up to receive and distribute funds that the co-conspirators hoped to obtain from the corrupt Ecuadorian judgment. The company was established in 2012 by Steven Donziger, the lead American lawyer behind the fraud, and his associates. Donziger and Fajardo, an Ecuadorian lawyer, were found by a U.S. Federal Court to have engaged in extortion, money laundering, wire fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, witness tampering and obstruction of justice. The Front, which has long been involved in peddling a dishonest public relations campaign against Chevron aimed at extorting a settlement from the company, and Servicios Fromboliere, an Ecuadorian law firm established by Fajardo, are both shareholders in Amazonia and part of the extensive web of obscure entities established by the participants in the fraud against Chevron to attempt to hide their misconduct and profit from it.

Today’s ruling is the latest in a series of setbacks for Donziger and his team, which has been unsuccessful in its attempts to enforce the Ecuadorian judgment across a variety of jurisdictions.

“In issuing this decision, the Supreme Court is holding the perpetrators of this fraudulent enterprise accountable for their actions,” said R. Hewitt Pate, Chevron’s vice president and general counsel. “In courtrooms around the world, this fraudulent scheme against Chevron Corporation continues to implode.”

This latest judgment against Donziger’s associates and their supporting organizations follows a December 2015 ruling against Amazonia itself, in which the Supreme Court of Gibraltar awarded Chevron $28 million in damages and issued a permanent injunction against Amazonia preventing it from assisting or supporting the case against Chevron Corporation in any way. Chevron claims against Amazonia asserted that the company is a vehicle to perpetuate the ongoing fraud scheme against Chevron, with the express purposes to procure funding for the scheme, fund the plaintiffs’ conspiracy, issue shares of the company to lawyers, advisors and funders, and receive and distribute proceeds from the corrupt Ecuadorian judgment.

In 2015, Chevron filed similar claims in Gibraltar against Fajardo, Yanza and Chavez, and later, in 2017, successfully joined the Front and Servicios Fromboliere to the proceedings as additional defendants. Despite orders from the court, and their status as directors and shareholders in the Gibraltar company, the defendants failed to acknowledge service of court documents or participate in the proceedings. As a result, the court issued a default judgment against the defendants, awarding Chevron $38 million. The award was based on legal fees and other costs incurred by Chevron to uncover and combat the conspiracy. The Gibraltar court also issued a permanent injunction prohibiting the defendants from further participation in the scheme and ordered the defendants to reimburse Chevron for any future expenses it incurs defending itself against the fraud.

In addition to these developments in Gibraltar, efforts to enforce the fraudulent Ecuadorian judgment have now been rejected in Argentina, Brazil, Canada and the United States.

In the United States, in March 2014 Judge Lewis Kaplan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the Ecuadorian judgment was the product of fraud and racketeering activity, finding it unenforceable in the United States and holding Donziger liable for RICO violations. In his opinion, Judge Kaplan described Amazonia as a “Gibraltar company…through which the property collected on the judgment is to be funneled.”

In Brazil, in 2015 the Federal Prosecutor's Office issued a recommendation to the country's Superior Court of Justice that the judgment not be recognized for enforcement, finding that it was "issued irregularly, especially under uncontested acts of corruption" and that recognizing it would violate Brazilian and "international public order." The Brazilian Superior Court of Justice subsequently unanimously rejected attempts to enforce the judgment in November 2017. On May 16, 2018 the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice rejected attempts by the plaintiffs to limit the scope of its decision through a motion to clarify.

Similarly, in 2016 Argentina's public prosecutor's office recommended that its National Court reject the effort to recognize the Ecuadorian judgment in that country. The National Court No. 61 in Buenos Aires dismissed the recognition action on October 31, 2017. An appeal is now pending.

In Canada, in January 2017 a court ruled that the Ecuadorian judgment could not be enforced against Chevron Canada Limited, an indirect subsidiary of Chevron. That decision was upheld on appeal in on May 23, 2018 by the Ontario Court of Appeals.

Since the extent of Donziger and his team’s fraud scheme was revealed, more than a dozen former insiders and allies have abandoned the effort, including Donziger’s former co-counsel, environmental consultants, funders, investors, employees and Ecuadorian collaborators.

Ya as usual get caught lying and cheating and suddenly you are not what you are but something else.

 

[Crick]

1) Name a single known environmentalist among the Ecuadorian conspirators
2) Name a single peer-reviewed article (with citation count) written by any of the conspirators
3) Name a single aspect of the IPCC's data that this court concluded were fraudulent

 

[Sun Devil 92]

You have to wonder about the tactics.

This was designed to create some type of perception and capitalize on it.

That isn't unlike the envirowhacko's.

They don't necessarily want a lot of money.....

They simply want to force things to go the way they feel they should go.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Dimwits everywhere..."yay Exxon Valdez, take that nature!"

 

[skookerasbil]

1) Name a single known environmentalist among the Ecuadorian conspirators
2) Name a single peer-reviewed article (with citation count) written by any of the conspirators
3) Name a single aspect of the IPCC's data that this court concluded were fraudulent

Lol....thats the same thing as saying, "Well 3 judges sided with us!!"

Nobody gives a rats ass about citing anything....when you win, no need!!

 

[skookerasbil]

Dimwits everywhere..."yay Exxon Valdez, take that nature!"

That's exactly right s0n.....good for you!!

The days of guilting people about the environment are long gone. As usual, progressives got st00pid and pushed the hystetia too far. The response? "FUCK THIS!"

 

[Syriusly]

Jo Nova

Chevron wins $38m from Environmentalists behaving badly: extortion, fraud, witness tampering, corrupt practices

May 30,2018

EXCERPT:

"In 2011, environmentalists won the worlds largest judgement against Chevron (holy moley $18 billion), but it turned out it was all based on fraud, fake witnesses and telling lies. Who would think people who say they like trees and human rights would be so self serving? The award has since been overturned — indeed the tables have turned, and last week Chevron was awarded $38 million in damages.

Strangely, bad behaviour of planet-saving-people doesn’t appear to rate highly in the news. Hands up who thinks the BBC/ABC/CBC would fail to mention it if environmentalists won a $38m suit against a money-laundering-witness-tampering oil company?"

The rest HERE

Sounds like the court got it right.

Shocking that in this case it was the environmentalists who committed fraud.

Chevron of course would never harm the environment- we all know that. ....

 

[IsaacNewton]

Dimwits everywhere..."yay Exxon Valdez, take that nature!"

That's exactly right s0n.....good for you!!

The days of guilting people about the environment are long gone. As usual, progressives got st00pid and pushed the hystetia too far. The response? "FUCK THIS!"

For the self proclaimed dimwit.

 

[skookerasbil]

Dimwits everywhere..."yay Exxon Valdez, take that nature!"

That's exactly right s0n.....good for you!!

The days of guilting people about the environment are long gone. As usual, progressives got st00pid and pushed the hystetia too far. The response? "FUCK THIS!"

For the self proclaimed dimwit.

Perhaps.....but WINNING!!

 

[Sunsettommy]

Jo Nova

Chevron wins $38m from Environmentalists behaving badly: extortion, fraud, witness tampering, corrupt practices

May 30,2018

EXCERPT:

"In 2011, environmentalists won the worlds largest judgement against Chevron (holy moley $18 billion), but it turned out it was all based on fraud, fake witnesses and telling lies. Who would think people who say they like trees and human rights would be so self serving? The award has since been overturned — indeed the tables have turned, and last week Chevron was awarded $38 million in damages.

Strangely, bad behaviour of planet-saving-people doesn’t appear to rate highly in the news. Hands up who thinks the BBC/ABC/CBC would fail to mention it if environmentalists won a $38m suit against a money-laundering-witness-tampering oil company?"

The rest HERE

Sounds like the court got it right.

Shocking that in this case it was the environmentalists who committed fraud.

Chevron of course would never harm the environment- we all know that. ....

I think Crick made a good case that they were NOT Environmentalists.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Dimwits everywhere..."yay Exxon Valdez, take that nature!"

Drinking and posting is not a good combination for you.

 

[SSDD]

The people involved in this scheme were not environmentalists. They were scammers. Your attempt to besmirch environmentalism with this story is pathetic.

As usual, you are uninformed. As I have pointed out to you on numerous occasions, there is a lot more information out there beyond what is provided in your left wing biased piece of shit articles.

Pablo Fajardo, the lawyer is a well known human rights activist...and we all know that the very word activist denotes someone who believes the ends justify the means.

Luis Yanza is a well known environmental activist...well, well known to everyone except perpetual uninformed dupes that is.

Ermel Chavez is the president of the Amazon Defense Coalition

Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia, in case you don't know how to work a translation extension on google is the Amazon Defense Front..certainly an environmental activist organization

Servicios Fromboliere.. Who knows? There is so little information about them out there that they are, in all likelihood nothing more than a shell organization fronting for yet another environmental group.

So we have an activist lawyer, the president of an environmental organization, an environmental organization itself, and a company that in all probability was a shell organization fronting another environmentalist organization...and you claim they were not environmentalist? What a dupe.

Here is a newsflash for you skidmark...all environmentalist organizations are scammers... If you want to see people genuinely interested in preserving nature, look to conservationist organizations.

 

[Sunsettommy]

The people involved in this scheme were not environmentalists. They were scammers. Your attempt to besmirch environmentalism with this story is pathetic.

As usual, you are uninformed. As I have pointed out to you on numerous occasions, there is a lot more information out there beyond what is provided in your left wing biased piece of shit articles.

Pablo Fajardo, the lawyer is a well known human rights activist...and we all know that the very word activist denotes someone who believes the ends justify the means.

Luis Yanza is a well known environmental activist...well, well known to everyone except perpetual uninformed dupes that is.

Ermel Chavez is the president of the Amazon Defense Coalition

Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia, in case you don't know how to work a translation extension on google is the Amazon Defense Front..certainly an environmental activist organization

Servicios Fromboliere.. Who knows? There is so little information about them out there that they are, in all likelihood nothing more than a shell organization fronting for yet another environmental group.

So we have an activist lawyer, the president of an environmental organization, an environmental organization itself, and a company that in all probability was a shell organization fronting another environmentalist organization...and you claim they were not environmentalist? What a dupe.

Here is a newsflash for you skidmark...all environmentalist organizations are scammers... If you want to see people genuinely interested in preserving nature, look to conservationist organizations.

I did some digging too to find very little information on who they are as if they are a shadowy group. I saw this, but couldn't seem to find what they actually do:

Amazon Defense Coalition

Maybe you can provide a link to it?

 

[deanrd]

Why are Republicans always against a clean environment? What is it about filth they love so much?

 

[Sunsettommy]

Why are Republicans always against a clean environment? What is it about filth they love so much?

Why are you so gosh darn stupid and ignorant?

It was President Nixon who pushed for the creation of the EPA, a Republican.

The Origins of EPA

"In early 1970, as a result of heightened public concerns about deteriorating city air, natural areas littered with debris, and urban water supplies contaminated with dangerous impurities, President Richard Nixon presented the House and Senate a groundbreaking 37-point message on the environment. These points included:

• requesting four billion dollars for the improvement of water treatment facilities;
• asking for national air quality standards and stringent guidelines to lower motor vehicle emissions;
• launching federally-funded research to reduce automobile pollution;
• ordering a clean-up of federal facilities that had fouled air and water;
• seeking legislation to end the dumping of wastes into the Great Lakes;
• proposing a tax on lead additives in gasoline;
• forwarding to Congress a plan to tighten safeguards on the seaborne transportation of oil; and
• approving a National Contingency Plan for the treatment of oil spills.

"Around the same time, President Nixon also created a council in part to consider how to organize federal government programs designed to reduce pollution, so that those programs could efficiently address the goals laid out in his message on the environment.

Following the council’s recommendations, the president sent to Congress a plan to consolidate many environmental responsibilities of the federal government under one agency, a new Environmental Protection Agency. This reorganization would permit response to environmental problems in a manner beyond the previous capability of government pollution control programs:"

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Why are Republicans always against a clean environment? What is it about filth they love so much?

Why is it that you can never back up your claims ?

What is it about lying that seems to turn you on ?

Republicans are against the overreach of the EPA. That is not being against a clean environment Just like being against porn is not being against sex.

The EPA sucks. It is one more step we've taken to create an environmental barricade to good practices.

They think they rule and they use their government status to screw businesses over.

EPA is Out of Control

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blog...he-epa-is-not-the-fourth-branch-of-government

The EPA is out of control – now they want to ban hobby race cars

Your love of government should take you to places like Cuba or California.

Have at it. But don't screw up our world just because you need someone to tell you when to take a dump or tie your shoes.

Keep trying and we'll keep ramming back up your backside.

 

[jc456]

And many are looking at criminal charges now.... Lying to the court isn't taken very well by most judges..

deceit