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253. The conspirators have also staged protests at several of Chevron's annual<br />

shareholder meetings. As shown in the film Crude, these protests, while designed to appear to<br />

be grassroots, community events, are actually carefully planned and literally scripted by<br />

Donziger and his co-conspirators.<br />

254. In addition, the conspirators have lobbied large institutional investors to support<br />

Chevron shareholder resolutions designed to bring support for the conspirators' lies and to add<br />

additional pressure on Chevron. For example, Stratus and Amazon Watch were involved in<br />

drafting a 2009 shareholder resolution, offered by the Office of the Comptroller of New York<br />

City as the custodian and trustee of certain pension funds. On December 1, 2008, Mitchell<br />

Anderson of Amazon Watch emailed Beltman of Stratus with the subject line "2009 Shareholder<br />

Resolution - Urgent Update" and stated that "[ w]e need to make some changes quickly to the<br />

below paragraph, given the new figures released by the cOUli appointed expert." Beltman<br />

provided the higher numbers from Cabrera's revised report, which were then included verbatim<br />

in the shareholder resolution proposed by the funds the next day. That resolution provides that a<br />

"court-appointed expert in the Ecuadorian litigation has recommended that Chevron be held<br />

liable for up to $27.3 billion in damages," but fails to explain that Stratus and the other RICO<br />

Defendants and their co-conspirators secretly drafted the "court-appointed expert's" report<br />

fInding Chevron liable.<br />

255. The conspirators have promoted their involvement in drafting shareholder<br />

resolutions that seek to draw attention to Cabrera's finding of liability, but, again, without<br />

disclosing the RICO Defendants' and their co-conspirators' roles in drafting his report. For<br />

example, on April 8, 2009, after the SEC declined to issue a no-action letter to Chevron<br />

regarding one of the conspirators' shareholder resolutions, Hinton and Amazon Watch issued a<br />

press release describing the resolution as, "a high-profile resolution that threatens to focus<br />

attention on the company's record-breaking $27 billion environmental liability in Ecuador."<br />

256. The Wall Street Journal has reported that the RICO Defendants' statements<br />

about the Lago Agrio Litigation, and, specifically, Cabrera's assessment of $27 billion in<br />

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