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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 1
PARTIES AND RELEVANT NON-PARTIES ............................................................................. 4
Plaintiff ............................................................................................................................... 4
RICO Defendants ................................................................................................................ 4
Non-Party Co-Conspirators ................................................................................................ 6
Remaining Defendants ...................................................................................................... 12
SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION AND VENUE ................................................................ 13
PERSONAL JURISDICTION ...................................................................................................... 13
FACTUAL BASIS FOR CLAIMS ............................................................................................... 19
A. Background ....................................................................................................................... 19
1. TexPet Participates in Ecuador's State Oil Consortium and Negotiates
Release From Liability in Return for Specified Remediation .............................. 19
2. U.S. Plaintiffs' Lawyers Devise Baseless Litigation Against Chevron
in Ecuador ............................................................................................................. 28
B. The Conspirators Are Corrupting the Judicial Process to Extort a Payment
FrOln Chevron ................................................................................................................... 31
I. Pressuring the Lago Agrio Court and Manufacturing Evidence ........................... 33
a. Implementing Pressure Tactics and Colluding With Ecuadorian
Government Officials ................................................................................ 33
b. Taking Advantage of a Weakened and Increasingly Corrupt
Ecuadorian Judiciary ................................................................................. 40
c. Manipulating and Falsifying Their Own Experts' Findings to
Corrupt the Judicial Inspection Process .................................................... 42
(i) Inducing an Expert to Report Biased and False Results ............... 43
(ii) Filing Falsified Expert Reports ..................................................... 46