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Report and publicize its findings. To these ends, Lipton met with Donziger to<br />

discuss the RICO Defendants' plan to draft portions of the Cabrera Report and<br />

was included in various correspondence concerning Stratus's work in<br />

ghostwriting the Cabrera Report.<br />

d. David Chapman ("Chapman") is a Principal at Stratus and is a resident of<br />

Colorado. Chapman proposed drafting the Cabrera Report to Donziger, worked<br />

with Lipton and the RICO Defendants to coordinate the use of Stratus resources<br />

in the ghostwriting of the Cabrera Report, and participated in the subsequent<br />

obstruction of Chevron's efforts to uncover evidence of the fraud in U.S. court<br />

proceedings. He met with Donziger to discuss the RICO Defendants' plan to<br />

ghostwrite the Cabrera Report, signed Stratus's report endorsing the Cabrera<br />

Report, and perjured himself in a deposition when he testified that he had no<br />

reason to believe that Stratus had provided work product to Cabrera.<br />

e. William Powers ("Powers") is a subcontractor for Stratus and is a resident of<br />

California. Powers had responsibility for components of the fraudulent scheme to<br />

ghostwrite the Cabrera Report; he worked on two annexes of the Cabrera Report<br />

and drafted portions of Cabrera's supplemental repOli.<br />

f. Amazon Watch is a "non-profit" organization with its main office at 221 Pine<br />

Street, San Francisco, California 94104. Amazon Watch undertakes various<br />

projects ostensibly on behalf of environmental and human rights causes in the<br />

Amazon basin. In connection with the Lago Agrio Litigation, Amazon Watch<br />

applied its experience and resources in public, media and government relations to<br />

use the Cabrera Report and other false and fraudulent claims as the basis for the<br />

RICO Defendants' public pressure campaign against Chevron. With the Amazon<br />

Defense Front, Amazon Watch maintains at least one of the RICO Defendants'<br />

websites, chevrontoxico.com, and through that and other means, distributes false<br />

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