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For some reason, this wasnt on my tee vee.
Six-Month Sentence for Lawyer Who Took on Chevron Denounced as 'International Outrage'
Conviction of Steven Donziger, said one critic, "perfectly encapsulates how corporate power has twisted the U.S. justice system to protect corporate interests and punish their enemies."
JULIA CONLEY
Common Dreams, October 1, 2021
Environmental justice advocates and other progressives on Friday condemned a federal judge's decision Friday to sentence human rights lawyer Steven Donziger to six months in prisonfollowing more than two years of house arrest related to a lawsuit he filed decades ago against oil giant Chevron.
The sentence, delivered by U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in New York City, represents "an international outrage," tweeted journalist Emma Vigeland following its announcement.
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In 2019, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the Southern District of New Yorka former corporate lawyer with investments in Chevronheld Donziger in contempt of court after he refused to disclose privileged information about his clients to the fossil fuel industry. Kaplan placed Donziger under house arrest, where he has remained under strict court monitoring for 787 days.
In addition to Kaplan's own connections to Chevron, the judge appointed private attorneys to prosecute the case, including one who had worked for a firm that represented the oil giant.
Preska, who found Donziger guilty of the contempt charges in July, is a leader of the right-wing Federalist Society, which counts Chevron among its financial backers.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/01/six-month-sentence-lawyer-who-took-chevron-denounced-international-outrage
The Feudalist Society, more like.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)A total miscarriage of justice. I hope the ACLU & more environmental groups are getting involved.
R&R
Kid Berwyn
(14,902 posts)Duppers
(28,120 posts)It's all about big money. Greed.
drmeow
(5,017 posts)We've already been there for decades.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)Who Kid B referenced above.
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I was responding to the quote, not to you. Hard to make something like that clear!
2Gingersnaps
(1,000 posts)because of course you have contempt for such corruption.
bucolic_frolic
(43,158 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,760 posts)KS Toronado
(17,230 posts)All New Yorkers should flood Gov. Kathy Hochul's office with demands for a pardon,
and an investigation into the 2 judges.
Wounded Bear
(58,649 posts)Response to Wounded Bear (Reply #14)
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LeftInTX
(25,312 posts)Southern District of New York is the Manhattan area.
This is where alot of Wall Street crimes are tried.
He can appeal his conviction and sentence, but this seems like one convoluted international law case, that is way beyond my pay scale. I think I saw that movie on Netflix.
She is a Republican judge, but the first judge handling the case was a Clinton appointee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Preska
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger
Demovictory9
(32,454 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,169 posts)Judges and laws are there to ensure the profits of corporations which ensures the endless wealth of the filthy rich. Laws and judges don't hold criminals accountable or protect all citizens equally. They don't even interpret laws accurately if those laws make a corporation's profits less. Have you read some of those free trade agreements? Corporations are wealth extraction systems that couldn't work without huge unfair legal protections.
No matter the destruction to all we hold dear, profits, above all else, must be protected against the concerns of common men and women.
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Justice matters.
(6,928 posts)erronis
(15,241 posts)Says it all.
"Preska, who found Donziger guilty of the contempt charges in July, is a leader of the right-wing Federalist Society, which counts Chevron among its financial backers."
Or to paraphrase you: The Fraudulent Society, more like.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)uponit7771
(90,336 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)calimary
(81,240 posts)Start contaminating their brand.
It just might stick. Then theyd have to start explaining themselves and pesky unwanted questions could start, and when reporters start getting the feeling that somebodys trying to dance them off into a side room, then things REALLY start complicating their lives.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)calimary
(81,240 posts)TigressDem
(5,125 posts)Hubby is a pun master. Guess it's rubbing off on me.
sarchasm
(1,012 posts)WTF? A RICO complaint? ... because they wouldn't give them some film footage? A 211 page complaint spanning some 50+ years of petrochemical environmental destruction in Ecuador. The hours spent on that document made some assholes a shit-ton of blood money. Fucking hell!
I got news for you Chevron, your reputation was already in the trash way before this.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,582 posts)Duppers
(28,120 posts)For the mouth-dropping incredibly of this.
Putting an attorney in jail for exposing the TRUTH❗
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)cadoman
(792 posts)We have a huge problem with the types of people that are running our judicial system. They are absolutely rotten.