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This Op Ed is a crime.

Over a 30-year career, I've worn the hat of journalist, press secretary to a U.S. Congressman and cabinet member, and public affairs professional. I recently acquired a new title, courtesy of Chevron: a co-conspirator in a massive global scheme to extort money from the oil giant.
 
What exactly did I do? Pretty much what PR types and lobbyists do daily in Washington, D.C.: tell my client's story.
 
The clients are residents of the Ecuadorian rainforest who are in an 18-year legal battle with Chevron over the intentional dumping of toxic oil into the pristine waterways and nutrient soil of the planet’s largest oxygen bank, known as the “Lungs of the World.”
 

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