Steven Donziger Bribed Three Ecuador Judges In Chevron Case

Steven Donziger, the lead plaintiff's lawyer in the fraud-based case against Chevron in Ecuador, tries to make it sound like he is an innocent, country bumpkin attorney who is not completely up on the ways of Ecuadorian courts, telling the New York Times in 2013 that "at no time did I act with fraud or criminal intent". This is the same man who is probably doing back-flips over the rehashed old news that Alberto Guerra said he lied about taking bribes - well, considering that Guerra's family is still in Ecuador, and Guerra's on a list of Ecuadorians considered "traitors" the focus now must be on Ecuador President Rafael Correa and his employees. The only way for Guerra to consider telling a lie as he did to the tribunal was for his family to have been threatened as well as himself. That fact now must have us revisit Steven Donziger's practice of influncing judges in Ecuador. I wrote this in 2013: "Judge Alberto Guerra now becomes the third judge – yes, THIRD JUDGE – tied to this case who has either admitted or been accused of taking bribes from the legal team managed by Mr. Donziger. The total list of bent Ecuador judges involved in the Chevron Ecuador case: Judge Juan Nunez, Judge Nicholas Zambrano, and now Judge Alberto Guerra." Faced with questions regarding their taking of bribes, all have ran for cover unless saying so was of a help to them - no surprise there. But the video of Nunez saying it would take $3 million for him to deliver a judgement against Chevron still stands as the most damaging element in this case. You can see the full 28 minute video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St2BM7Sxde4 Judge Nunez is the one who allegedly paid Alberto Guerra to give a judgement against Chevron in the Ecuador case. Donziger has repeatedly said that corruption is the birthright of Ecuador Judges. He says it here and I am going to use HIS version of the video because Steven says the Chevron version was edited - thing is, the full video does not make him look better at all. Steven said that they were going to use methods to counter their corruption, which given what he said could only be corrupt! Talk about screwing yourself! Look: http://ift.tt/1PVbEXt Steven Donziger has a track record of manipulating people for his own gain in the Chevron Ecuador case. Take this information from the New York Times: "The lawyer Joseph Kohn, formerly a major financier of the suit, testified that Mr. Donziger had withheld information from him about the suspected ghostwriting of the report. “Mr. Donziger lied to me,” Mr. Kohn said. Cross-examining his former associate, Mr. Donziger suggested Mr. Kohn knew nothing about Ecuadorean legal customs, which allowed for the plaintiffs’ collaboration with a court expert. But Jeffrey Shinder, a lawyer who had briefly been retained by Mr. Donziger in 2010, said he was shocked to learn from a consultant working on the case that the consultant had written significant sections of the Cabrera report. Mr. Shinder withdrew from the case and the consultant, Douglas Beltman, has since renounced his work." The point of the RICO trial was to show that Steven Donziger had been the mastermind of a criminal effort to achieve a billion dollar judgement against Chevron. Judge Lewis Kaplan was right in ruling against Steven Donziger and nothing has happened to change that fact. Stay tuned.

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