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conspirators cast aside Dr. Calmbacher's actual conclusions and set about manufacturing<br />

reports to be filed under Dr. Calmbacher's name, a fact that Chevron only learned for the first<br />

time at Dr. Calm bacher' s March 2010 deposition that Chevron subpoenaed pursuant to 28<br />

U.S.C. § 1782.<br />

118. The difficulty for the RICO Defendants was how to obtain Dr. Calmbacher's<br />

signature on the false conclusions they wanted to submit as "expert" findings. Their solution<br />

was to send Dr. Calmbacher initial drafts of the report, which correctly characterized his<br />

conclusions, for his review. Because the drafts appeared to accurately reflect his opinions,<br />

Dr. Calmbacher authorized the reports to be filed.<br />

119. Next, the conspirators prevailed upon Dr. Calmbacher to provide signature<br />

pages, along with several blank pages bearing his initials, which he did, based on the lie that<br />

these extra pages would be used to file the reports he had already authorized to be filed. At the<br />

conspirators' request, Dr. Calmbacher sent by overnight delivery service one set of these signed<br />

and initialed pages to Ecuador and the second set directly to Donziger in New York.<br />

120. The reports that the RICO Defendants and their co-conspirators filed under<br />

Dr. Calmbacher's name, however, are not the same as the reports that he authorized to be filed.<br />

Instead, as part of their Plan B, the RICO Defendants and their co-conspirators prepared<br />

different, fraudulent reports that misstated the evidence and concluded that the inspected sites<br />

presented a danger to the environment and required additional remediation. The conspirators<br />

printed their fraudulent reports on the pages that Dr. Calmbacher had initialed, used the signature<br />

pages that he had provided, and filed the forged reports with the court in Lago Agrio.<br />

121. Although Chevron has since informed the Lago Agrio court about the falsified<br />

Calmbacher reports, to date the court has refused to remove his reports from the record or take<br />

any corrective measures.<br />

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