Aubrey Marcus Podcast

The Shocking Price For Standing Up To Big Oil w/ Steven Donziger #478

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This podcast is a picture of what a hero looks like. Steven Donziger is a US-based environmental lawyer. He was part of a legal team that earned a major environmental judgment against Chevron Corporation on behalf of Indigenous and local communities in Ecuador.  Chevron responded with a civil racketeering lawsuit and a massive defamation media campaign targeting Steven and his clients.  In 2019, Chevron obtained a judicial order requiring Steven to give Chevron access to his computers and online accounts, which contained decades of attorney-client communications.  When Steven refused, Chevron engineered the filing of criminal contempt of court charges. When the public prosecutor refused to prosecute the case, the unprecedented appointment of a private prosecutor drawn from a law firm Chevron has worked with in the past.  Steven was required to wear an ankle bracelet and confine himself to his two-bedroom apartment for nearly three years of pre-trial litigation. He was denied a jury but sentenced to the maximu