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y participating in a campaign of public attacks based on false and misleading statements about<br />

Chevron and the Lago Agrio Litigation through a website the Front maintains as well as<br />

numerous press releases and by manufacturing and causing to be manufactured false evidence.<br />

371. Defendant Selva Viva, through the actions of its agents Defendants Yanza<br />

and Donziger, among others, has committed several wire fraud violations and multiple acts of<br />

money laundering by causing funds to be transferred by Kohn and/or Kohn Swift from the<br />

United States to Ecuador, acting as a conduit of those funds, and then distributing those funds to<br />

finance the RICO Defendants' illegal scheme. Through the actions of its agents Defendants<br />

Yanza and Donziger, among others, Selva Viva has also engaged in numerous acts of extortion<br />

of Chevron and fraudulent conduct by manufacturing and causing to be manufactured false<br />

evidence.<br />

372. Defendant Stratus, through the actions of its agents Defendants Beltman,<br />

Maest, and other individuals, has committed numerous predicate acts, including mail and wire<br />

fraud, extortion, obstruction of justice, and witness tampering. The mail and wire fraud<br />

violations include those identified in Appendix B in which Stratus used or caused to be used the<br />

mail or wires in furtherance ofthe RICO Defendants' scheme to defraud. Stratus also has<br />

engaged in extortion of Chevron and fraudulent conduct by manufacturing false evidence, in the<br />

form of the Cabrera Report and its annexes, used extensively by the RICO Defendants in the<br />

Lago Agrio Litigation and more generally in furtherance of their illegal scheme. In addition,<br />

Stratus has engaged in extortion and fraudulent conduct by disseminating false statements about<br />

Chevron through its authorship of the Cabrera Report and through its later "evaluation" of that<br />

report. Stratus also has engaged in extortion and fraudulent conduct by participating in a<br />

campaign of public attacks based on false and misleading statements about Chevron and the<br />

Lago Agrio Litigation. Finally, Stratus has engaged in obstruction of justice by misrepresenting<br />

to the United States District Court for the District of Colorado that Cabrera was an independent<br />

expert, that it was "astonished" to see "similarities" between its own work product and the<br />

Cabrera Report when Stratus actually drafted the majority of the Cabrera Report, and otherwise<br />

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