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actual remediation work once the RICO Defendants obtained a fraudulent judgment against<br />

Chevron.<br />

147. Meetings and communications continued between the conspirators as they<br />

prepared Cabrera's report. Leading up to the April 2008 filing of Cabrera's first report, Stratus,<br />

Donziger, Kohn, and environmental consultants exchanged hundreds of emails regarding draft<br />

outlines ofthe Cabrera report and proposed annexes, schedules for completion of various<br />

annexes, and discussing review, analysis, and translation of the annexes including<br />

"[e]nvironmental standards," "[e]co impacts from contamination," "[p]it (plus) cleanup costs,"<br />

"[v]alue of human life losses," "[h]abitat losses at wells and stations," "TexPet [r ]emediation<br />

summary," "[h]istorical data summary," "[d]ata extrapolation" and "[t]oxicity of site chemicals<br />

to humans." (Additional details concerning the emails exchanged in furtherance of the<br />

conspiracy's scheme to defraud Chevron are included in Appendix B, which is incorporated by<br />

reference as if set forth herein in its entirety.)<br />

148. During this period, Donziger continued to press for higher and higher damages<br />

numbers, explaining at one point that an estimate for unjust enrichment "sound[ ed] awfully low"<br />

and implored that the Stratus consultants not "say or even suggest anything that backs away from<br />

the [Lago Agrio plaintiffs'] figures." And as another means of getting the high numbers he<br />

wanted-and getting the most impact from the "independent" expert-Donziger during this<br />

period suggested to Stratus that they "define the norms of clean-up" and then "propose these<br />

norms to the Ministry of Energy which governs these norms[,] and whose Minister is a good<br />

friend of ours, so that the Ministry issues them as an official decree before the trial ends."<br />

149. The numerous emails among the Stratus team and between Stratus and Donziger<br />

were necessary because, as Beltman explained in a February 22, 2008 email urging his Stratus<br />

colleagues' support: "We have to write, over the next 2 to 3 weeks, probably the single most<br />

important technical document for the case. The document will pull together all ofthe work over<br />

the last 15 or so years on the case and make recommendations for the court to consider in making<br />

its judgment." And that "single most important technical document for the case" was the<br />

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