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雪佛龙Statement on Ecuador Court Filings

加利福尼亚州圣拉蒙。9月。17年，2010年 - 伯爵士队（纽约证券交易所）（纽约证券交易所代码：CVX）向厄瓜多尔省省长的科学家们向省级科学家省省法院提交了专家证词，厄瓜多尔展示了对公司诉讼没有证据基础。雪佛龙还续签了案件的议案，因为没有责任证据，因为原告律师的欺诈迹象是压倒性的。

根据原告律师的并行提交，本公司发布了以下声明：

"Numerous Federal Courts in the United States have stated that the trial in Ecuador is marred by fraud and misconduct. The views of these Courts speak for themselves. Chevron views the latest filing by the plaintiffs' lawyers as a continuation of a strategy to commit fraud."

Note: The following background section of this document has been revised since initially released.

Key Excerpts from U.S. Courts Follow

Over the last several months, Federal Courts throughout the United States have authorized discovery producing an overwhelming record of misconduct on the part of the Lago Agrio plaintiffs' lawyers. The evidence, in the form of film outtakes from the movieCrude，来自原告自己的顾问的宣传的沉淀证据，通过发现制作的文件领导美国联邦法官和裁判法官宣布厄瓜多尔的审判已经被欺诈所破坏的案件：

A Magistrate in New Mexico wrote, "The release of many hours of the outtakes has sent shockwaves through the nation's legal communities, primarily because the footage shows, with unflattering frankness, inappropriate, unethical and perhaps illegal conduct. In the film itself, Attorney Donziger brags of his ex parte contacts with the Ecuadorian judge, confessing that he would never be allowed to do such things in the United States, but, in Ecuador, everyone plays dirty. The outtakes support, in large part, [Chevron's] contentions of corruption in the judicial process. They show how non-governmental organizations, labor organizations, community groups and others were organized by the Lago Agrio attorneys to place pressure on the new Ecuadorian government to push for a specific outcome in the litigation, and how the Ecuadorian government intervened in ongoing litigation."

Subsequently, the Magistrate wrote that, "The undersigned viewed those outtakes and finds that they are sufficient to establish a prima facie case of attempted fraudulent activity by attorney Donziger, including directing Respondents to 'extrapolate' scientific evidence that does not exist, and having a purportedly neutral expert sign his name to a report that was actually prepared by Plaintiffs' attorneys and experts without Chevron's knowledge."

北卡罗来纳州的裁判官写着“虽然该法院不熟悉厄瓜多尔司法系统的做法，但法院必须相信欺诈的概念是普遍的，而且在此问题上发生了公平的情况实际上是由任何法院审议的欺诈。如果这样的行为在特定国家没有欺诈，那么该国家的问题比漏油者更大。“

在新泽西州，法官表示这一点“在似乎是陈述诉讼团队的诉讼团队提供资料和信息，似乎是一个秘密的秘密，并且对本法院的一个据称中立法院任命的专家的未公开援助构成了欺诈的初步示范。在法庭上。“

In California, a Magistrate stated that, "I feel that the crime fraud exception is implicated by the ghost writing that was done. The two orders from the Ecuadorian tribunal were very clear that Mr. Cabrera was to give to the Court his independent intellectual work, and while he may adopt certain findings and conclusions of other experts, that adoption may occur only after he has independently assessed the integrity and validity of those findings and conclusions and notified the Court of such adoption, the reason for his adoption, and the process by which he came to the conclusion that such adoption was consistent with his own duties to the Court.

"It appears that Mr. Cabrera has failed to do that, implicating the crime fraud exception, and Chevron has a right to explore whether there has indeed been a violation of the -- whether indeed the crime fraud exception is implicated as directly as the evidence suggests it has been."

随后，加利福尼亚州的法官统治了这一点"The Court is persuaded by the reasons explained by Magistrate Judge McCurine as well as other U.S. courts who have addressed the issue, that the crime-fraud exception applies. There is ample evidence in the record that the Ecuadorian Plaintiffs secretly provided information to Mr. Cabrera, who was supposedly a neutral court-appointed expert, and colluded with Mr. Cabrera to make it look like the opinions were his own."

同时，外出Crude揭示原告的“律师”真正的赔偿战略。在电影中，原告的“律师史蒂文·唐兹格尔州”，“我们要求远远超过我们所预期的。例如，如果我们相信三百万清洁，我们要求18亿，他们会认为我们好像我们一样疯狂，或者法官会看到，'呃，我可以给德克萨克大约百分之八十的想法，然后我要给他们30亿。然后，如果我们要求18亿亿......但作为一个概念，我问，我们是否要求我们真正想要作为策略的东西？我们是否要求八，期待三个，所以[法官]说，'看看，德克萨克，我削减了最大的部分。“很明显原告的律师最近的申请是这种战略的延续。

现在在Lago Agrio法院展示原告的律师通过使用伪造的证词，制定证据，恐吓和反对法官的威胁以及据称“公正”法院专家的勾结造成欺诈行为的证据，并勾结“杰克”索赔远远超过了他们投诉的范围。记录中唯一可靠的证据引导了守卫和德克萨克免于任何责任，表明德克萨哥妥善履行其厄瓜多尔石油场地份额的商定的综合，以及厄瓜多尔的任何剩余补救是PetroeCuador的责任。因此，雪佛龙申请了拉各国法院撤销诉讼，并将原告律师欺诈行为向厄瓜多尔刑事检察官办公室提交刑事侦查。

Chevron的申请和法院裁决的副本可以访问www.chevon.com/ecuador/background/patternoffraud/

发布时间：2010年9月