It contends that Ecuador’s state-run oil company is responsible for much of the pollution in the oil patch that Texaco left in the 1970s.Prisoners are individuals sent to correctional facilities to carry out a sentence as punishment for their crimes. Donziger fabricated facts for his own ends, blaming the company for pollution mostly caused by Petroecuador, the national oil company that was once a partner of Texaco and continues to produce oil in the region.Ĭhevron has long argued that a 1998 agreement that Texaco signed with Ecuador after a $40 million cleanup absolves it of liability. Donziger has argued that Texaco, which was acquired by Chevron in 2001, cut through the Amazon, spilled oil into pristine rain forests and left behind a toxic mess.Īt the time, Chevron said Mr. Donziger sued the Chevron Corporation for oil spills that had a detrimental effect on the Amazonian region of Ecuador. Donziger’s appeal failed, he would have to surrender himself within 24 hours of the decision. Donziger immediately, giving him a chance to appeal the conditions of his bail. Judge Preska agreed to not incarcerate Mr. Donziger was sentenced to six months in prison, a day after he asked the court to consider an opinion by independent United Nations experts that found his court-ordered home confinement of more than two years a violation of international human rights law. “After 100 pages of legal briefing, the appellate court today denied my release in 10 words,” Mr. He had already spent more than 800 days under home detention after the court cited flight-risk concerns, his lawyer, Ronald L. Donziger turned himself in to a federal prison in Danbury, Conn., where he will serve his six-month sentence. Donziger fabricated evidence in the 1990s to win a lawsuit he filed against the oil giant on behalf of 30,000 Indigenous people in Ecuador.
Donziger was found guilty in July of six counts of criminal contempt of court for withholding evidence in a long, complex legal fight with Chevron, which claims that Mr. Steven Donziger, the environmental and human rights lawyer who won a $9.5 billion settlement against Chevron over oil dumped in Indigenous lands in the Amazon rainforest, surrendered himself to the federal authorities on Wednesday to begin a six-month prison sentence.
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