The former Ecuadorean judge who issued a $19 billion
pollution judgment against Chevron Corp testified on Tuesday that he wrote the
ruling alone, two weeks after another judge testified that he had been paid to
ghostwrite much of the decision.
Chevron has accused U.S. lawyer Steven Donziger of bribing
the judges to win the award for a group of villagers who lived in a contaminated
area of northeastern Ecuador.On the surface, the statements from Nicolas
Zambrano, the former judge who testified on Tuesday, appeared to go against
Chevron's claim that the judgment was a result of fraud.
But during several hours of tough questioning in a federal
court in New York, a Chevron lawyer was able to zero in on several potential
discrepancies in the judge's account.Zambrano repeatedly insisted that he had
authored the 188-page opinion on his own."It's your testimony that nobody
else wrote any of those words?" asked Randy Mastro, a lawyer for Chevron,
which called Zambrano as a witness. Read more.
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