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🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right. Joining me now back again is Steven Donzinger. Steven, I wish I could be talking to you |
0:09.3 | under better circumstances, but as it currently stands, you are scheduled to be what sentence tomorrow? |
0:15.9 | Yes. Tomorrow? What are your thoughts going into what is the culmination of a |
0:23.3 | year's long ordeal? Well, thanks for having me. I mean, it's brutal. I'm just not the way to |
0:30.5 | describe it, although I'm optimistic the result could be good, meaning I'll get released from my, |
0:38.4 | you know, in an ordinantly long house arrest. Now, 786 days today for a misdemeanor contempt charge |
0:47.6 | after, you know, as people out there in your audience, I think, no, I'd be Chevron and Court |
0:52.0 | representing Indigenous Groups in Ecuador and historic pollution judgment for about $10 billion. |
0:58.9 | They attacked me here in New York and basically, I'm the target of probably the nation's first |
1:04.8 | corporate criminal prosecution where a judge charging with disobeying a court order that I turn |
1:11.0 | over my computer to Chevron, which is, I think, a lawful, crazy unheard of. And after I appealed |
1:18.0 | the lawfulness of that order, the same judge charged you with a crime for not conflying with an |
1:24.5 | order that I had appealed. So he then locked me up and charged you with a misdemeanor and no person |
1:32.0 | in the federal system ever has been held pretrial and a misdemeanor person, I should say, with no |
1:36.9 | criminal record like me, for even a day. And I've been here now, you know, over two years. So |
1:42.7 | this is highly irregular. I think the real danger is that this represents a certain corporate |
1:50.8 | capture of our federal judges by Chevron, by the fossil fuel industry. I think this is their |
1:56.2 | playbook for the future, that is, you know, where people become too successful and holding |
2:00.4 | their accountable for their pollution or their destruction of the planet. They will be |
2:05.0 | prosecuted directly by private law firms that they control, which is happening to me. The |
2:11.2 | law firm was sued in Kisler with the New York law firm that as Chevron as a client, |
2:16.0 | and they're prosecuting me after the US government in Manhattan, the regular federal prosecutor |
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