For months, Chevron and its lawyers at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher have been engaged in an unprecedented effort to obtain discovery in the U.S. courts with the aim of discrediting any potential award against the company in the Lago Agrio environmental contamination case in Ecuador.
Now, with the Ecuadorian court poised to deliver a judgment that is expected to be in the tens of billions of dollars, Chevron has produced a 207-page complaint in Manhattan federal court that pulls together the evidence it has obtained into an assertion of a conspiracy to extort a multibillion-dollar settlement from the oil company.
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