Chevron Corporation released to the public a set of emails and videos related to a $3 million bribe scheme associated with an environmental lawsuit against the company in Ecuador. (Full text) In the latest in our series entitled "Caught By Email", we see that key individuals did not expect their emails to be released:
"In the correspondence, reviewed by Dow Jones Newswires, an alleged party official provides one of the businessmen, former local Chevron contractor Diego Borja, with a bank account number in a Galveston, Texas, bank. The email dates from late June, shortly after the businessmen recorded a meeting with a man who Chevron says is named Carlos Patricio Garcia, an official with Ecuador's ruling party Alianza PAIS. In that meeting, Garcia asked for a $3 million bribe, according to videos released by Chevron last week," reported today's Wall Street Journal.
Chevron's comment: The environmental case pending against Chevron in Ecuador has devolved into a runaway judicial farce, orchestrated by a community of interest made up of U.S.-based contingency-fee lawyers seeking a financial bonanza and the government of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, which seeks both a financial and political windfall.
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