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May 2021
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Meet the Environmental Lawyer 'Begging' ...

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Over the course of 28 years in courts across the world, litigation over drilling by Chevron's predecessor Texaco in the Ecuadorean rainforest has taken countless surprising turns, but perhaps none so unusual as the ongoing criminal trial of their archnemisis: environmental lawyer Steven Donziger.

"We kind of laugh about this on our legal team, but I'm probably the only lawyer in America ever to really be begging to be prosecuted by the DOJ criminally," Donziger quipped during a Zoom interview taped days before his criminal trial in Manhattan Federal Court.

On the latest episode of the Law&Crime podcast "Objections: with Adam Klasfeld," Donziger and one of his most high-profile supporters, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), explain to the show's host why they are both asking for the Department of Justice's intervention in the criminal case.

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