Chevron’s Effort to Collect From Extortionist Lawyer May Proceed

December 10, 2019, 3:39 PM UTC

Chevron Corp. will have its day in court to get discovery from the lawyer who led a corrupt effort to extort billions of dollars from the company through a scheme involving its operations in Ecuador, a federal court in New York ruled.

Suspended lawyer Steven Donziger asked the court to delay a Dec. 12 hearing while he faces criminal contempt charges also associated with Chevron’s discovery efforts to recover an $800,000 judgment from him.

The upcoming hearing deals with a civil contempt order, the opinion by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of ...

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