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Lago Agrio: The Cabrera Report—Mystery Solved
Today Letters Blogatory wades further into the Lago Agrio mire than usual. The question is one I raised back in April, when Doug Cassel’s open letter was still the hot topic: who wrote the Cabrera report? Who wrote the Cabrera report? The Cassel memorandum points to emails in which one of the plaintiffs’ lawyers seemingly…
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Was the Lago Agrio Judgment Ghostwritten?
Chevron advocate and friend-of-Letters-Blogatory Doug Cassel is back with his take on the judgment ghostwriting issue. I’ll respond to some of his points in the comments. In a January 7 post Ted Folkman makes an ambitious—albeit “tentative”—effort to assess the voluminous evidence of fraud committed by Steven Donziger and certain other plaintiffs’ attorneys in the…
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Lago Agrio: Judge Kaplan Orders Patton Boggs To Produce Documents
Judge Kaplan has issued a significant decision in the RICO case against Steven Donziger and the Lago Agrio plaintiffs. The decision orders the Ecuadorans’ US law firm, Patton Boggs, to produce documents in response to a subpoena, subject to privilege claims much narrower than the claims Patton Boggs argued it was entitled to make. The…
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Steven Donziger Has A Fraud Problem
Steven Donziger has a problem. The problem is not necessarily that he committed fraud (though maybe he did if Chevron is right). The problem is that people who should be his allies are accusing him of fraud. We have already seen the Reyes Declaration and the Calmbacher deposition, as well as the case brought by…