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CVX—Latest wrinkle in the fraudulent Ecuadoran lawsuit:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Chevron-New-Evidence-of-Fraud-bw-2707451357.html?x=0

Through its U.S. discovery efforts, Chevron has obtained previously private files belonging to the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ lawyers and their co-conspirators. These files contain numerous and unique errors…and the same errors and irregularities now appear in the Ecuadorian court’s judgment despite never having been entered into the trial record.

…Examples of the overlap between the judgment and the plaintiffs’ private files include:

• The judgment repeatedly uses an irregular naming scheme for sampling data that is unique to a convention used in the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ lawyers’ non-public files.

• The internal files erroneously replace “micrograms” with “milligrams” for certain sample reports, and the judgment makes the same error for the same samples.

• The Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ lawyers’ private files present data in a manner that can make it appear that certain test results showed the presence of mercury, even though the actual laboratory reports indicate that no mercury was detected. The judgment incorrectly reports the presence of mercury in these same samples.

• The judgment repeats errors found in other internal documents prepared by the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ lawyers and their co-conspirators, including citations to the wrong page in the Ecuadorian court record, and other grammatical and substantive errors.

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