The saga of Chevron’s self-described “dirty tricks guy” continues. As a refresher: Diego Borja is the guy who claimed in 2009 that he had video showing the Ecuadorean judge presiding over the lawsuit against Chevron accepting a bribe. Chevron breathlessly announced the bribery “scandal” and claimed Borja was just a concerned citizen with no connection [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Chevron PR spokesman Kent Robertson’s constant efforts to spin court proceedings to fit his company’s twisted version of events in Ecuador may be about to blow up in his face in a big way. Perceiving a small victory for his obscenely profitable oil company over the Indigenous and rural Ecuadoreans seeking justice for the deliberate [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Chevron’s latest bullying legal tactic is a RICO suit filed in a U.S. federal court against the Indigenous and rural Ecuadoreans who are attempting to force the company to clean up its billions of gallons of toxic oil waste in the Amazon. One of the plaintiffs’ lawyers in Ecuador, Juan Pablo Sáenz, filed a declaration [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 17, 2011
Diego Borja must come clean — that was the decision that came down yesterday from Judge Edward Chen in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Borja, a self proclaimed “dirty tricks” operative for Chevron, has been on the run from a subpoena filed by the Ecuadorean government and the Indigenous and campesino plaintiffs in the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Perhaps you saw the news last week that Chevron’s self-described “dirty tricks guy” in Ecuador, Diego Borja, has fled California to evade being served with a subpoena. I feel compelled to say something here, because if this isn’t the height of hypocrisy and a shocking admission of guilt, I don’t know what is. Borja, a [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 7, 2011
This post originally appeared on the Chevron in Ecuador blog. It appears that Chevron’s self-described “dirty tricks guy” in Ecuador, Diego Borja, who was recorded talking about his efforts to corrupt the trial over Chevron’s contamination in Ecuador, is on the run to avoid questioning recently ordered by U.S. courts. Borja and his wife, who [...]
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