Hey, Drill listeners.

We have a special update episode for you today.

Stephen Donziger's Contempt Trial, which we opened this season with, is about to start

on Monday.

There's been a ton of back and forth between him and the judges.

Drill requests for a delay have been denied.

Donziger was requesting that the trial be delayed, mostly so that he could have a lawyer

present.

So at this point, the trial is happening on Monday, and he will not have a lawyer present

as far as we know as of the Thursday before.

He is being held in contempt as a result of a civil contempt charge that basically came

out of this rico judgment against him and some of the plaintiffs and some of the other

plaintiffs attorneys in 2014.

Part of the judgment in that case was that Donziger and a few other of the named defendants

were not allowed to profit in any way from the collection of the judgment in the Ecuadorian

case.

What I've run suspected that Donziger was doing something that ran a foul of that ruling.

They asked Judge Kaplan to do something about it.

They asked for what's called post-judgment discovery, which is to be allowed to kind of

look into it and see if Donziger was in fact making money off of getting this judgment.

Judge Kaplan granted that.

They asked for Donziger to hand over his computer and his phone and various other things he refused.

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