Ecuador suit plaintiffs strike back at Chevron

On Monday, Chevron Corp. tried to discredit key pieces of evidence against the company in a long-running, $27 billion lawsuit over oil field pollution in Ecuador. On Tuesday, it was the other side's turn. Representatives of the plaintiffs released a report questioning the credibility of a man who last year gave Chevron secretly recorded videos that the oil company says show judicial misconduct in the trial. According to the plaintiffs' report, the man, Diego Borja, told a friend he had evidence that would damage Chevron in the trial, evidence he would make public if the oil company mistreated him. Unbeknownst to Borja, his friend recorded their conversations and turned over the recordings to the plaintiffs, telling them that he acted out of disgust at Borja's scheming.