Mastro, emboldened by his success with the outtakes, decided to go one step further.
The e-hail opponents, who say the program could ruin their livelihoods, are gratified, said their lawyer, Randy Mastro.
In another scene that Mastro showed to the court, Donziger chats with associates over dinner at a restaurant.
In the courtroom, wearing a conservative suit, with his spectacles perched on the tip of his nose, Mastro springs to life.
This struck Mastro as potentially significant, because after the meeting in question Beristain had gone to work for the independent environmental-damages expert.
The Daily News once observed that Mastro was the only person in the Giuliani administration who made the Mayor seem like a nice guy.
When Mastro entered the plush conference room where I was waiting, he carried a towering stack of binders containing thousands of pages of Chevron briefs and affidavits.
But Mastro argued that the outtakes exposed a criminal conspiracy, in which Donziger was exploiting the corruption of the Ecuadoran system to pressure Chevron into a huge settlement.
Mastro, who has peaked eyebrows and unruly white hair, is soft-spoken, but, even by the pugilistic standards of the New York bar, he has a reputation as a merciless litigator.
When Randy Mastro and his colleagues scrutinized the film, they noticed a tiny discrepancy between the version that aired at Sundance and the one that was subsequently released on DVD.
As Mastro and his associates made their way through the trove of material on Donziger, the information that most interested them had to do with the independent environmental-damages expert, Richard Cabrera.
As a federal prosecutor, and then as a deputy mayor under Rudolph Giuliani, Mastro fought the New York Mob, cleaning up the Fulton Fish Market and the San Gennaro Festival, despite death threats.
It was not long before Mastro requested another hearing before Kaplan, an acerbic but respected senior federal judge, who worked as a corporate lawyer before his appointment to the bench, by Bill Clinton, in 1994.
For fourteen days, in a conference room in a midtown skyscraper, Mastro and other Chevron attorneys questioned Donziger, under oath, about the financing of the case, and about various legal strategies that he had used.
The day after killing Mr Emmanuello, police arrested dozens of Mafia suspects and seized the libro mastro, or central register, of all the firms paying money to a rising clan in the eastern city of Catania.
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