{"id":451524,"date":"2021-03-04T20:16:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T01:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/?p=451524"},"modified":"2021-03-04T20:16:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T01:16:16","slug":"u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-contempt-rulings-against-disbarred-lawyer-behind-fraudulent-ecuadorian-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-contempt-rulings-against-disbarred-lawyer-behind-fraudulent-ecuadorian-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Contempt Rulings Against Disbarred Lawyer Behind Fraudulent Ecuadorian Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <!--.bwalignc { text-align: center; list-style-position: inside }body {font:normal small Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000;background-color:#fff;padding:24px;margin:0;} a img {border:0;} h3 {font-size:medium;color:#000;margin:0 0 1em 0; text-align:center;}-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"bwalignc\"><b>U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Contempt Rulings Against Disbarred Lawyer Behind Fraudulent Ecuadorian Lawsuit<\/b><\/p>\n<p>SAN RAMON, Calif.&#8211;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\">BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)&#8211;<br \/>\nThe United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today affirmed multiple findings of civil contempt against disbarred attorney Steven Donziger, effectively bringing to a close his campaign to profit from the fraudulent Ecuadorian judgment he procured in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (\u201cRICO\u201d) Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs the Second Circuit today observed, it has been finally adjudicated that Donziger \u201cfraudulently procured the Ecuadorian Judgment against Chevron through a pattern of racketeering activity.\u201d The court also noted \u201cDonziger, among other things, bribed the presiding judge to enter a judgment in his clients\u2019 favor in exchange for $500,000 of the judgment\u2019s proceeds; coerced the court to appoint a hand-picked expert whom Donziger paid for favorable testimony; and ghost-wrote the Ecuadorian Judgment.\u201d In 2020, the New York Appellate Division, First Department, disbarred Donziger for \u201cegregious professional misconduct, namely, corruption of a court expert and ghostwriting his report, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and judicial coercion.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn today\u2019s ruling, the Second Circuit agreed with \u201cthe district court\u2019s conclusions that Donziger acted in contempt of the Injunction that resulted from the RICO Judgment in numerous ways,\u201d including Donziger\u2019s failure to transfer his interest in the fraudulent Ecuadorian judgment to Chevron, transferring a portion of his interest in the judgment in exchange for personal services, transferring and dissipating his assets in violation of his obligations as a judgment debtor, and disregarding discovery orders. The court noted that for the most part Donziger did \u201cnot even attempt to challenge the district court\u2019s findings of his contumacious conduct.\u201d The court reversed other aspects of the district court\u2019s rulings and remanded the case to the district court for determination of the amount of fees Donziger owes Chevron.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe decision rejects Donziger\u2019s attempts to circumvent the RICO judgment. The Second Circuit ruled that, going forward, Donziger \u201ccan no longer sell <i>any<\/i> interests in the Ecuadorian Judgment for <i>any<\/i> reason, and use the proceeds for his benefit . . . or profit from such sales in any way whatsoever.\u201d The court also upheld the district court\u2019s award of costs against Donziger, because \u201ccosts were sought in a litigation in which Donziger has been found liable for engaging in a pattern of racketeering involving corruption of a foreign judiciary resulting in a multi-billion dollar judgment.\u201d The decision acknowledged \u201cthe district court\u2019s thorough and fully persuasive fact findings and legal conclusions, which [the Second Circuit] ha[s] already affirmed in full, establishing Donziger\u2019s violations of law and ethics that added up to a pattern of racketeering in violation of the RICO statute.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nU.S. courts are not alone in condemning the Ecuadorian litigation against Chevron. In a separate proceeding, an international tribunal in The Hague previously ruled that the Ecuadorian judgment was procured by the plaintiffs\u2019 legal team through egregious fraud and corruption and is therefore unenforceable under international law. The international tribunal further rejected the environmental allegations against Chevron, holding that the corrupt Ecuadorian judgment was based on environmental claims that had been already settled and released by the Republic of Ecuador years earlier following the successful completion of an environmental remediation carried out under the supervision and with the approval of the Republic of Ecuador.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAll efforts to enforce the fraudulent Ecuadorian judgment outside of Ecuador have been rejected. Today\u2019s decision further vindicates Chevron\u2019s position in this long-running dispute.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nChevron Corporation is one of the world\u2019s leading integrated energy companies. Through its subsidiaries that conduct business worldwide, the company is involved in virtually every facet of the energy industry. Chevron explores for, produces and transports crude oil and natural gas; refines, markets and distributes transportation fuels and lubricants; manufactures and sells petrochemicals and additives; generates power; and develops and deploys technologies that enhance business value in every aspect of the company\u2019s operations. Chevron is based in San Ramon, Calif. More information about Chevron is available at <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chevron.com&amp;esheet=52391335&amp;newsitemid=20210304006182&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=www.chevron.com&amp;index=1&amp;md5=eeebb75bc5bf0f31f39d278f8d29f929\">www.chevron.com<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=bwnews&amp;sty=20210304006182r1&amp;sid=flmnd&amp;distro=nx&amp;lang=en\" style=\"width:0;height:0\" \/><span class=\"bwct31415\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"mmgallerylink\"><span id=\"mmgallerylink-phrase\">View source version on businesswire.com: <\/span><span id=\"mmgallerylink-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20210304006182\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20210304006182\/en\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\nContact: Sean Comey, +1-925-842-5509\n<\/p>\n<p><b>KEYWORDS:<\/b> California United States South America Ecuador North America<\/p>\n<p><b>INDUSTRY KEYWORDS:<\/b> Chemicals\/Plastics Energy Manufacturing Oil\/Gas<\/p>\n<p><b>MEDIA:<\/b><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"3\">\n<tr>\n<td><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><b>Logo<\/b><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20210304006182\/en\/827248\/3\/Chevron_logo_2020.jpg\" alt=\"Logo\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Contempt Rulings Against Disbarred Lawyer Behind Fraudulent Ecuadorian Lawsuit SAN RAMON, Calif.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211; The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today affirmed multiple findings of civil contempt against disbarred attorney Steven Donziger, effectively bringing to a close his campaign to profit from the fraudulent Ecuadorian judgment he procured in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (\u201cRICO\u201d) Act. As the Second Circuit today observed, it has been finally adjudicated that Donziger \u201cfraudulently procured the Ecuadorian Judgment against Chevron through a pattern of racketeering activity.\u201d The court also noted \u201cDonziger, among other things, bribed the presiding judge to enter a judgment in his clients\u2019 favor in exchange for $500,000 of the judgment\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-contempt-rulings-against-disbarred-lawyer-behind-fraudulent-ecuadorian-lawsuit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Contempt Rulings Against Disbarred Lawyer Behind Fraudulent Ecuadorian Lawsuit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Contempt Rulings Against Disbarred Lawyer Behind Fraudulent Ecuadorian Lawsuit - Market Newsdesk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-contempt-rulings-against-disbarred-lawyer-behind-fraudulent-ecuadorian-lawsuit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Contempt Rulings Against Disbarred Lawyer Behind Fraudulent Ecuadorian Lawsuit - Market Newsdesk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Contempt Rulings Against Disbarred Lawyer Behind Fraudulent Ecuadorian Lawsuit SAN RAMON, Calif.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211; The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today affirmed multiple findings of civil contempt against disbarred attorney Steven Donziger, effectively bringing to a close his campaign to profit from the fraudulent Ecuadorian judgment he procured in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (\u201cRICO\u201d) Act. 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