JFL Biden pardons a corrupt judge, while ignoring a request to pardon America's biggest victim of judicial corruption in history

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/politics/joe-biden-commutations-pennsylvania-illinois/index.html

Former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan was convicted in 2011 in what was infamously called the “kids-for-cash” scandal, where he took kickbacks from for-profit detention centers in exchange for wrongly sending juveniles to their facilities. The case was widely considered to be one of the worst judicial scandals in Pennsylvania history

Biden pardoned this person

Meanwhile...

Pardon Donziger

My name is Steven Donziger. I’m a human rights lawyer who was locked up in the United States for close to three years after I worked with Amazonian communities to hold Chevron to account for creating one of the world’s worst environmental disasters.

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My name is Steven Donziger. I’m a human rights lawyer who was locked up in the United States for close to three years after I worked with Amazonian communities to hold Chevron to account for creating one of the world’s worst environmental disasters.


For three decades, Chevron dumped billions of gallons of cancer-causing oil waste into the rivers and streams of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador.


This produced a devastating environmental catastrophe that resulted in the deaths of thousands of Indigenous peoples and farmers. Even today, Indigenous communities continue to face imminent risk of death due to exposure to Chevron’s toxic waste.


After years of litigation, we won a landmark legal battle that resulted in Chevron being ordered to pay $10bn in damages – the largest judgement ever awarded in an environmental lawsuit.


But they haven’t yet paid out one cent.


Instead, Chevron hired 60 law firms and hundreds of lawyers to try to destroy me. They sued me personally in New York for $60 billion - more liability than any bank or fossil fuel company had ever faced.


I was prosecuted directly by Chevron on a bogus contempt of court charge and I spent over two years in detention without a trial.


This contempt charge demonstrated a “staggering” and “appalling” level of bias in favor of Chevron from a US judge who had financial ties to Chevron, according to five prominent jurists from the United Nations.


Worst of all, Chevron fought to confiscate my passport so I cannot travel to see my clients in the Amazon or appear in courts around the world to force the company to pay what it owes to the communities it poisoned.

Chevron literally established a private court in which they prosecuted Donziger for contempt (after actual state prosecutors refused to do so) -- the only instance of this happening in American history

He has not been pardoned, however.

President Biden: stand up to Chevron and pardon Steven Donziger | Jim McGovern

Chevron spent billions trying to destroy him after he won the largest pollution case in history. It’s time for Biden to end this nightmare

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