One of the most important claims held up by Chevron in the RICO case was the accusation, confirmed by Guerra, that the Ecuadorean lawyer Pablo Fajardo, working with Steven Donziger, had given Zambrano a draft of the Lago Agrio judgement, which Guerra in turn reviewed and edited for him before it was issued.
The French advocacy group SOS Racisme said that it would support legal proceedings if the accusations were confirmed.
But if the Israeli accusations are confirmed, the Bulgarian blast would be the first successful attempt by Iranian operatives to kill Israelis in attacks abroad after a string of failed bomb plots targeting Israeli diplomats in Georgia, India and Thailand this year.
Lothar Schröder, a member of the supervisory board and a leader of the company's main union, ver.di, said in an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, "If the accusations are confirmed, it is an enormous scandal".
(Thanks to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, whistleblowers have skin in the game and get rewarded if the accusations are confirmed).
Louis C.K. spent years denying the accusations he confirmed after the New York Times report came out.
The accusation, if confirmed, would be a shocking episode of Alawite-on-Alawite violence in a conflict punctuated by violence between sects.
In Angola a recent IMF transparency drive has confirmed accusations in a previous Global Witness report that up to $1.7bn a year went missing from state coffers between 1997 and 2001.
The investigation into Sergeant Ronghi confirmed accusations that others in his unit, Company A, had mistreated civilians in the town of Vitina in the days and weeks before the girl's death.
While the whole story of the "X Files" plot lines may never be revealed, one "out there" truth is that, by design or accident, the series puts those with even the most valid conspiracy theories, or even confirmed accusations, about government misdeeds into the same category as those who find extraterrestrials making cryptic designs in their cornfields.
They also confirmed accusations that the rebels were forcibly recruiting children.
