#Chevron Wants to Destroy Him. Stand With Donziger As He Fights To Protect the Amazon.
’m a human rights lawyer who in 2013 helped Indigenous communities in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest win a historic $10 billion pollution case against Chevron for one of the world’s worst environmental disasters.
To retaliate, Chevron sued me for $60 billion -- the largest liability ever faced by an individual in the United States. The company had my law license removed without a hearing, and had me detained at home and in prison for almost three years.
It was probably one of the most well-financed and vicious corporate retaliation campaign in history.
Chevron's lawyers effectively took over the role of federal prosecutors. I was denied a jury and "convicted" on an illegal contempt charge that five jurists from the United Nations determined violated international law.
My period of detention was more than four times longer than the maximum legal sentence allowed for a misdemeanor under the law. It was the only private corporate prosecution in the history of this country
It was also a corporate hit job.
