Environmental lawyer who won a judgment against Chevron lost everything
From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csrwire.com&#x2F;press_releases&#x2F;40738-U-S-Judge-Kaplan-Approved-Secret-Chevron-Payments-to-Court-Official-Who-Swayed-RICO-Case-for-Company" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csrwire.com&#x2F;press_releases&#x2F;40738-U-S-Judge-Kapla...</a><p>&gt;The evidence demonstrates that Chevron sent the funds in 2013 to the account of Max Gitter, a court-appointed Special Master who at the time was working as Senior Counsel at the high-profile corporate law firm Cleary Gottlieb. Gitter is a personal friend and former law partner of Lewis A. Kaplan, the controversial federal judge who presided over the Chevron “racketeering” (or RICO) case and who repeatedly has been accused of bias in favor of the oil giant in its multiyear attempt to try to taint a $9.5 billion environmental judgment against it handed down by Ecuadorian courts.<p>&gt;Gitter and an associate were secretly billing Chevron a total of $1,330 per hour for their work sitting in weeks of depositions leading up to the civil RICO trial, which began in October 2013. That amount is more than many of the indigenous peoples in Ecuador who won the judgment make in one year, said Patricio Salazar, the Ecuadorian lawyer for the Front for the Defense of the Amazon (FDA), the group that represents the affected communities.<p>I think it&#x27;s 100% clear cut what&#x27;s going on here