Lawyer Who Won $9.5 Billion Settlement Against Chevron Reports to Prison

"In July, Judge Preska found Mr. Donziger guilty of all charges. On Oct. 1, Mr. Donziger was sentenced to six months in prison, a day after he asked the court to consider an opinion by independent United Nations experts that found his court-ordered home confinement of more than two years a violation of international human rights law." This is a pretty outrageous sentence, and the details about the case are almost - but sadly not quite - unbelievable.

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