In a statement, Karen Hinton, a spokesperson for Donziger, said that DeLeon had provided no funds for two years, and that Donziger’s team welcomed the settlement, “because it will allow a significant stake in the winning judgment of the affected villagers to be used for clean-up of their ancestral lands rather than be paid to an outside investor.”
She also argued that “Chevron’s willingness to drop all of its claims against Mr. DeLeon for no financial consideration … reflects the company’s increasingly weak position in the overall litigation.”
