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documents Donziger had withheld were highly probative and damning materials that revealed<br />

the RICO Defendants' scheme in even greater detail, including emails about meetings with the<br />

judge in Lago Agrio and with President Correa, memos regarding the obstruction of Chevron's<br />

discovery efforts in the United States, and other documents revealing further falsehoods made<br />

by the RICO Defendants to the press and to government agencies.<br />

322. This hidden cache of documents is not the end of the story. Donziger produced<br />

seven hard drive images in response to the Court's order, and assured Chevron, through<br />

counsel, that those were all that he had, and that he was "not aware of any use by him or others<br />

ofthumb drives or similar devices and, accordingly, does not have any." But analysis of the<br />

hard drive images provided by Donziger revealed that at least 79 unique external storage<br />

devices, including 7 external hard drives, 1 zip drive, and 59 flash drives had been connected to<br />

those hard drives at various times. The analysis also revealed that on August 4, 2010, two<br />

different external storage devices were attached to Donziger's computers-that was the day<br />

after Chevron made its first public filing containing the outtakes from Crude that showed<br />

Donziger's March 3, 2007 meeting with Cabrera.<br />

323. Confronted with this analysis, Donziger admitted that he "might have" used a<br />

flash drive "once or twice," and that he might have used one in the last six to eight weeks in<br />

connection with the Lago Agrio Litigation, but that he does not have it anymore, and does not<br />

know where it is or why he does not have it.<br />

D. Chevron Has Suffered Substantial Damages as a Result of the RICO<br />

Defendants' Conspiracy, and Enforcement ofthe Corrupt Judgment in the<br />

Lago Agrio Litigation Would Deepen the Harm<br />

324. The RICO Defendants and their co-conspirators have used the corruption and<br />

politicization endemic to the Ecuadorian judicial system to their advantage and by colluding with<br />

the Ecuadorian government and corrupting the court and its "neutral" expert. Indeed, as Judge<br />

Kaplan explained, "there is evidence to support Chevron's claim that the 'global assessment' is a<br />

fraud .... There is evidence too that other expert evidence submitted to the Ecuadorian courts<br />

on behalf of those plaintiffs also was fraudulent. Chevron thus stands in jeopardy of a huge<br />

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