Posted on 11/02/2013 9:12:41 AM PDT by rktman
Big Oil: So what happened to the $19 billion judgment against Chevron over rainforest pollution in Ecuador? Seems the leftist lawyer behind it all now finds himself in the dock on a RICO rap for a massive fraud.
This has been going on for years, the oft-repeated meme that Chevron, through its Texaco acquisition, polluted the rainforest floor and poisoned its helpless villagers. Activist Bianca Jagger is emblematic of this disregard for fact.
In the Huffington Post, she wrote that while she's no apologist for Chevron's accusers, the bottom line is: "Ecuadorian communities were the victims of exploitation by a multinational corporation, Texaco."
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Like Gore-bal warming?
I would say yes but so many are taken in by Gore-bal warming it must be so very convincing that many judges would be suckered by it; after all 5 Supreme Court Justices were suckered by ObamaCare.
back when mick married her, I remember remarking to myself how much they looked ALIKE!
When you cant prove a thing you reach in deep for anything
We know what P.T. Barnum had to say about suckers. Only when it’s the government that is suckered “We the People’ are the real suckers.
Somtimes a chunk of spaghetti sticks to the wall. Nuthin’ ventured, nuthin’ gained.
...the leftist lawyer behind it all now finds himself in the dock on a RICO rap for a massive fraud.
But...but....but...CORPORATION!
If you read the judge’s decision, he basically accuses the Anerican lawyers in the case of a criminal conspiracy.
LOL! That’s a pretty wide net. Glad you finally got around to commenting on the article. Dang. How long ago was that on here?
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