Chervon Ecuador Judge Nunez Bribery scandal

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail?blogid=95&entry_id=46608 - In a blockbuster development, Ecuador Judge Juan Nunez, the key legal figure in the Chevron Ecuador environmental damage case, is captured in a video shown here explaining that he plans to rule against the oil giant and for an award of $27 billion "more or less". The judge explains that the verdict will happen and that Chevron will be blocked from filing an appeal of his ruling. Later in the video its implied that Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa will benefit from the bribe amount.


On video today I talked to Chevron Media Relations representative Sean Covey about the video and Chevron's investigation.

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[Rubert07032]

chevron are criminal

[mefuiavolver]

you only pay fuckin criminals.....

[osofieroso]

jajjajaj pay and the problem is done corrupts criminals

[RawFoodKevin]

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[RawFoodKevin]

"the whole episode raises more troubling questions about Chevron than about the judge or Ecuador's judicial process that the company has spent so much time impugning." The Amazon Defense Coalition has compiled a list of these troubling questions at the website:

chevrontoxico

When will Chevron quit conspiring to evade responsibility and help the people in the Ecuadorian Amazon who continue to suffer the horrific after-effects of operations that made the company one of the richest on the planet?

[RawFoodKevin]

Chevron played a role in planning the scandal in an attempt to taint the trial, a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and a federal crime.

In the fourth video, the judge is not present and the "government official" who appears to talk about a bribe in return for securing remediation contracts for Mr. Hansen turns out to be a an over-zealous car salesman living in Quito who has been to some political rallies but isn't even a registered member of President Correa's ruling party.

[RawFoodKevin]

Only the day before the bombshell about Hansen's shady past (and present), Chevron admitted that its lawyers met with Borja in San Francisco in the midst of the sting operation, flatly contradicting Chevron's previous statements to Ecuador's Attorney General, as well as the press, that it had "no knowledge" of the meetings or taping until the videos were handed over to them.

[RawFoodKevin]

It's also hard not to wonder what Chevron might consider "reasonable" as payment to a man willing to help derail a multi-billion dollar case against the company.

A steady stream of shocking revelations suggest Chevron's involvement with the felon Hansen may be more sinister than a case of poor judgment.

[RawFoodKevin]

Steven Donziger, the main American attorney advising the communities suing Chevron says "the real Wayne Hanson bears no resemblance to the fictitious civic-minded character created by Chevron to explain how it suddenly came into innocent possession of the videos."

Ya gotta wonder, if Hansen had no chance of scoring a lucrative remediation contract, what interest did he have sticking his neck out trying to fabricate a corruption scandal?

[RawFoodKevin]

So Hasen is a violent criminal and a fraud, which makes this a perfect match with Chevron

"An AP investigation also has found no evidence that he worked in environmental remediation."

Hansen refused to respond when asked the name of his purported company in a brief telephone interview with the AP on Oct. 15.

Hansen told the AP that he had water-treatment projects in Mexico and Ecuador and was going to build a golf course in Ecuador. But when an AP reporter questioned those claims, he hung up.