![]() Suddenly the verdict, and decades of Donziger’s single-minded pursuit of the case, began to unravel. Instead, Chevron targeted Donziger personally, and its counter-attack revealed damning evidence of his politicking and manipulation of evidence. But the company refused to surrender or compromise. And in the end, he won an unlikely victory, a $19 billion judgment against Chevon-the biggest environmental damages award in history. He cajoled and coerced Ecuadorian judges on the theory that his noble ends justified any means of persuasion. ![]() During twenty years of legal hostilities in federal courts in Manhattan and remote provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle, Donziger and Chevron’s lawyers followed fierce no-holds-barred rules. Donziger, a larger-than-life, loud-mouthed showman, proved himself a master orchestrator of the media, Hollywood, and public opinion. ![]() The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by decades of oil production near their villages and fields. Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to become the third-largest corporation in America). ![]() The gripping story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade-waged at any cost-against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest.
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