Environmental
Mar. 9, 2011
Chevron Payments to Witness Revealed
Ecuadorean plaintiffs trying to win the right to enforce a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron Corp. point to the oil company's payments to a potential witness as evidence of the company's "unclean hands."
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - New court documents released briefly last week revealed that Chevron Corp. - in part through one of its law firms, Jones Day - paid at least $169,000 to a man who secretly videotaped one of the original judges in a massive environmental case against the oil company in Ecuador.
When Chevron announced in August 2009 that it received the video recordings, which the company claims show th...
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