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corrective action. Further, the RICO Defendants' false and misleading statements have caused<br />

Chevron substantial damages.<br />

Pattern of Racketeering Activity: Money Laundering in Violation 0[18 u.s. C.<br />

§ 1956(a)(2){A)<br />

358. Defendants Yanza, Donziger, the Law Offices of Steven R. Donziger, and<br />

Donziger & Associates, PLLC, have on multiple occasions, acting in their individual capacities<br />

and as agents for Selva Viva and/or the Front have knowingly caused the transportation,<br />

transmission, and/or transfer offunds to or from the United States to themselves and to<br />

Defendants Selva Viva, the Front, and other entities with the intent that those funds be used to<br />

promote the carrying on of unlawful activity, including but not limited to violations of 18 U.S.c.<br />

§§ 1341, 1343 and 1951, such as the secret preparation of the Cabrera Report, payment to<br />

Cabrera for his complicity and silence as to the report's authorship, the funding of the RICO<br />

Defendants' pressure campaigns against the Lago Agrio court and against Chevron, and<br />

collusion with the Republic of Ecuador.<br />

Pattern of Racketeering Activity: Obstruction of Justice in Violation 0[18 u.s. C. § 1503<br />

359. Faced with implacable denials in Ecuador from Cabrera and the RICO<br />

Defendants about the authorship of the Cabrera Report, Chevron turned to U.S. courts to pursue<br />

discovery directly from the Enterprise through proceedings under 28 U.S.c. § 1782, which<br />

authorizes "[t]he district court of the district in which a person resides or is found [to] order him<br />

to give his testimony or statement or to produce a document or other thing for use in a<br />

proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal."<br />

360. In a concerted effort to thwart Chevron's attempts to uncover the truth and<br />

avoid discovery, the RICO Defendants, and their counsel, have habitually filed or caused to be<br />

filed documents, including declarations sworn to under penalty of perjury, that falsely represent<br />

that Cabrera was an independent expert and that otherwise misrepresent the RICO Defendants'<br />

interactions with Cabrera. They have done so with the full knowledge that these statements were<br />

false, as evidenced by their own internal correspondence. By making these deliberate and<br />

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