sentences:  In court it was revealed that Trident and the other processors had accepted a settlement of between 63.75 and 76 million dollars from Exxon for agreeing to return to Exxon their share of any punitive damages awarded by the court.The processors "agreed to be Exxon's front" in recovering punitive damages and Exxon agreed to pay their ongoing legal fees.Judge Holland called the deal an "astonishing ruse" and accused Exxon of acting as "Jekyll and Hyde ... behaving laudably in public and deplorably in private."