Chevron has filed some voluminous papers in support of a new motion to hold Steven Donziger in contempt of court. I’m not going to write about the issue yet, because Donziger hasn’t responded and in light of all the redactions it’s hard to know whether there’s anything really interesting. But the metadata here tell a story. Chevron has filed, under seal, a declaration from Mary K. Sullivan in support of this motion. I believe this is the person I wrote about back in March: In its motion, Chevron presents the affidavit of Lee Grinberg, of Elliott Management Corp., a New York hedge fund. He related the following story: a colleague, Jesse Cohen, told him on November 3, 2017, that he had been introduced by…

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