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Lago Agrio Litigation, pursuing relief in the Treaty Arbitration, uncovering the RICO<br />

Defendants' fraud through discovery in the United States (discovery with which the RICO<br />

Defendants have continually interfered and which they have unduly extended, as described<br />

herein), responding to false and misleading reports in major media publications and broadcasts<br />

which have been induced by the RICO Defendants, and maintaining an ongoing effort to provide<br />

accurate information about the Cabrera Report and other aspects of the RICO Defendants' fraud<br />

to the media and directly to the pUblic.<br />

406. Chevron also has been harmed in that Defendants' conduct has damaged<br />

Chevron's reputation, thus interfering with Chevron's interest in the public goodwill toward it.<br />

Public awareness of and positive associations with the Chevron and Texaco brand names, and<br />

Chevron's other brand assets are among Chevron's most valuable assets, and Chevron has<br />

invested substantial resources into those brand names. The RICO Defendants have intentionally<br />

sought to reduce the value of those assets as part oftheir extortionate scheme. As Donziger has<br />

expressly stated, a key element of the RICO Defendants' strategy is to impose upon Chevron,<br />

"the cost of their sullied reputation, you know, in the media."<br />

407. The harms suffered by Chevron are the direct, proximate, and reasonably<br />

foreseeable results ofthe Defendants' acts of intentional interference with Chevron's funds and<br />

goodwill.<br />

408. Defendants have engaged in the malicious, willful, and fraudulent commission<br />

of wrongful acts and, because of the reprehensible and outrageous nature of these acts, Chevron<br />

is entitled to, and should be awarded, punitive damages against each of the Defendants.<br />

409. Chevron is further entitled to, and should be awarded, a preliminary and<br />

permanent injunction that enjoins Defendants, their assignees, and anyone else acting in concert<br />

with them-including the law firms of Emery Celli, Motley Rice and Patton Boggs, and H5 and<br />

financial backers such as Burford and Russell DeLeon-from commencing, prosecuting, or<br />

advancing in any way-directly or indirectly-any attempt to recognize or enforce the Lago<br />

Agrio judgment in any court, tribunal, or administrative agency in any jurisdiction, in the United<br />

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