David Boies, a renowned attorney, has been caught “caught off guard”. Worse yet, his case in Florida is being shut down by the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
As predicted on this site, the defendants in the false Litigation Trust of PDVSA in the U.S. are questioning both the trust’s position and David Boies’ ability to present even a half-coherent case.
Boies has repeatedly failed to produce witnesses for the statement. These witnesses, whom Boies is supposed to provide, are not strangers to his action: on the contrary, they are the very people he is meant to represent; these are the individuals who “signed” an agreement with his agents Andrews and Swyer; these are the people who, inexplicably, gifted Boies 66% of the profits he could extract from the defendants; ultimately, this is a case that has only been presented in Switzerland by agents of Wilmer Ruperti, and in Florida by Boies, but crucially, not in the same jurisdiction where the fraud was perpetrated: Venezuela.
In other words, the Attorney General of Venezuela who “instructed” Boies to sue on behalf of PDVSA is not suing the culprits in Venezuela!
Boies is unable to present witnesses for a simple reason: the party who cooked up this deal (Wilmer Ruperti) has no control over PDVSA, its officials, the Venezuelan prosecutors, or any Chavista in a position of authority.
This week, last-minute talks are taking place in Madrid and Barcelona, according to sources familiar with the case, between Ruperti and Bill Duker, the alleged financier of the trust, and Boies, whose lawyers were expected to attend a deposition on June 8 – which never happened – with Hilda Cabeza (spokesperson for PDVSA’s CEO, Manuel Quevedo). Furthermore, Cabeza stated (in a letter) that PDVSA cannot comply with discovery requests related to the legitimacy of the trust, as they have no additional documents to conclusively prove its legality under Venezuelan law.