[onetimemanytime]

Charges were for violating US law. Chevron claimed that he paid off Equatorian judges, manufactured evidence etc.

>>The decision hinged on the testimony of an Ecuadorian judge named Alberto Guerra, who claimed that Donziger had bribed him during the original trial and that the decision against Chevron had been ghostwritten.

A lot of stuff happens in such places, but when you take on Chevron size companies, you better be squeaky clean. Hundreds of lawyers and PIs will find everything. Chevron can't bribe, but local lawyers and PIs no doubt can.

[shkkmo]

Chevron can't "bribe" the judge... They can just pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars and get him US residency while taking extreme care in prepping his testimony (which somehow still contained lies and inconsistencies after all that prep.)

[onetimemanytime]

Oh, I meant that Chevron pays local attorney $3.7 million for fees and $2 Million are taken by that lawyer to bribe the judge. Chevron hears and sees no evil, they just pay their bills in time.

[socialdemocrat]

Say the judge Alberto Guerra, was paid by Chevron or intermediates to say this, how would you prove that? Is the testimony of a judge all it takes?

[SpicyLemonZest]

Chevron proved bribery in the original case through the testimony of a judge, circumstantial evidence showing opportunities to bribe the judge, and substantial discussions by Donzinger's associates about how they wanted to pay a bribe and how easy it would be to do so. If a similar array of evidence were deployed to show Chevron bribing someone, I think most people would be convinced.

[jessaustin]

If you are "squeaky clean", what stops the "hundreds of lawyers and PIs" from just manufacturing something?