Google “The Godfather: Part II,” and “quotes” and you’ll find one of the thugs touting the great advantages of a “partnership with a friendly government.” In Ecuador, certain members of the American plaintiffs’ bar have found their partner.
In a shakedown worthy of Mario Puzo’s epic, a host of American lawyers led by Philadelphia attorney Joseph Kohn have effectively “partnered” with the Ecuadoran government in an attempt to wrest up to $16 billion from the Chevron corporation – without proof of either harm or culpability, and in the face of a ten-year old contract by the Ecuadoran government itself that completely contradicts its current claims.
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