Alleged judge payoffs latest twist in Chevron case

Lago Agrio: Case over ongoing contamination has a new twist with ghostwriting, payoff allegations

Chevron on Monday revealed a new wrinkle in the $19 billion environmental lawsuit against it by plaintiffs in Ecuador.

The latest plot twist comes via a 28 January federal court filing in New York by lawyers for the oil company, which almost exactly two years ago was hit by the monster verdict in connection with contamination in the Amazon jungle in eastern Ecuador, Bloomberg reported.

In the filing, a former Ecuadorian judge named Alberto Guerra, who for a time presided over the case in 2003, says under oath that he was paid thousands of dollars by lawyers representing jungle residents for illegally ghostwriting judicial orders favoring the plaintiffs and issued…

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