False Testimony Forced Chevron To 'Prep' Its Million-Dollar Witness For 50 Days in Ecuador Case

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Just when you thought the long-running and bitter Chevron/Ecuador legal battle could not get any more bizarre, it does.

Legal briefs recently filed in a U.S. court revealed that for 50 day Chevron lawyers prepped their million-dollar star witness about a bribe alleged in the oil giant's retaliatory RICO lawsuit against a group of Ecuadorian indigenous peoples and their U.S. lawyer. (See page 61 of this legal brief.)

It took Chevron that long to try and get Alberto Guerra's story straight.

Will Mississippi GOP Return Political Favor To Black Voters?

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On a Saturday afternoon in the fall of 1984, a few weeks before the November election of that year, a white man walked into the Greenville, Mississippi campaign office of Robert Clark, the first black person to win a Democratic congressional nomination in Mississippi since Reconstruction.

As the press secretary for Clark, I happened to be in the mostly empty office that day. The white man (I long ago forgot his name) looked like he had just walked out of a Mississippi country club after a round of golf. He wore pink pants and a green-and-pink-checkered sports jacket. In his right hand was a briefcase. The man entered into the office of Clark's campaign manager, heaved the briefcase onto a desk and opened it.