Law of The Jungle-Paul M Barrett with Scott Cluthe

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HERE  Scott Cluthe talks with Paul M. Barrett, author of law
of The Jungle Live tonight. Barrett is an assistant managing
editor and senior writer at Bloomberg Businessweek.  He
is the author of the New York
Times bestseller Glock: The Rise of America’s
Gun, American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion,
and The Good Black:  A True Story of Race in
America.  He lives and works in New York City.  The
gripping story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade—waged at
any cost—against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and
indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest. Steven Donziger, a
self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on
to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco
(which later merged with Chevron to become the third-largest
corporation in America). The suit sought reparations for the
Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by
decades of oil production near their villages and fields. During
twenty years of legal hostilities in federal courts in Manhattan
and remote provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle, Donziger
and Chevron’s lawyers followed fierce no-holds-barred rules. In the
end, he won an unlikely victory, a $19 billion judgment against
Chevron--the biggest environmental damages award in history.