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and misleading statements as part of the RICO Defendants' extortionate scheme.<br />

Kohn and Kohn Swift are significant financial supporters of Amazon Watch.<br />

g. Atossa Soltani ("Soltani") is the founder and executive director of Amazon Watch<br />

and, in that capacity, Soltani repeatedly distributed false and misleading<br />

statements about Chevron and the Lago Agrio Litigation as part of the RICO<br />

Defendants' extortionate scheme. She has also worked with Donziger, Yanza and<br />

other RICO Defendants to coordinate the public pressure campaign against<br />

Chevron, and to develop the RICO Defendants' strategy of manipulating the Lago<br />

Agrio court through intimidation and collusion with the Republic of Ecuador.<br />

Soltani is a resident of California.<br />

h. Rainforest Action Network ("RAN") is a "non-profit" organization with its main<br />

office at 221 Pine Street, San Francisco, California 94104. The organization<br />

specializes in boycotts, demonstrations, and other high-profile means of exerting<br />

pressure on corporations that it perceives threaten the world's rainforests. In<br />

close concert with Amazon Watch (with which it shares a headquarters location),<br />

RAN has organized demonstrations and boycotts against Chevron and distributed<br />

false and misleading statements about Chevron and the Lago Agrio Litigation.<br />

RAN also maintains at least one of the websites, changechevron.org, through<br />

which the RICO Defendants distribute false and misleading statements.<br />

i. Richard Stalin Cabrera Vega ("Cabrera") is a mining engineer and court expert in<br />

the Lago Agrio Litigation and a resident of Ecuador. The RICO Defendants<br />

secured his appointment as a purportedly independent court expert in the Lago<br />

Agrio Litigation. He was paid by the RICO Defendants and their co-conspirators<br />

for his cooperation in signing a fraudulent report ghostwritten by the RICO<br />

Defendants and their co-conspirators and he has repeatedly misrepresented his<br />

independence.<br />

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