The Amazon Post

Chevron is defending itself against false allegations that it is responsible for alleged environmental and social harms in the Amazon region of Ecuador. 

In February 2011, an Ecuadorian judge ruled against Chevron in an Ecuadorian lawsuit and awarded more than $18 billion (later reduced to $9.5 billion). 

Based on overwhelming evidence of fraud and misconduct throughout the Ecuadorian lawsuit and trial, Chevron initiated a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. In March 2014, the court ruled that the Ecuadorian judgment was the product of fraud and racketeering activity, finding it unenforceable in the United States.

The evidence of fraud was so overwhelming that the Wall Street Journal labeled the lawsuit the “legal fraud of the century.”

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