Attorneys for environmental lawyer Steven Donziger said Thursday that he is serving the remainder of a six-month sentence for contempt of court at home under a pandemic-era early release program.
Donziger tweeted Thursday afternoon: "Danbury prison officials released me this morning to serve the rest of my sentence at home."
Donziger's legal team had requested his release under the CARES Act, said Martin Garbus, one of his lawyers.The Federal Bureau of Prisons did not immediately reply to a request for comment nor did it respond to a phone call.serving his sentence at the Danbury federal prison on Oct. 27. A prison staffer contacted by phone could not confirm his release.
The prison's website says it is operating under the strictest level of COVID modifications, including masking, screening and social distancing.guilty of criminal contempt in July including for failing to turn over his computer and other electronic devices in connection with his long-running legal battle with Chevron Corp over oil pollution in Ecuador.
In that case, a Manhattan judge in 2014 barred enforcement in the United States of a $9.5 billion judgment that Donziger won against Chevron in Ecuador, finding it was secured through bribery, fraud and extortion.Prior to his imprisonment, Donziger spent about 800 days in home confinement to address concerns of flight risk.The case is United States v. Donziger, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 21-2486.
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