From the Twitter feed of Frans Koster, who attended the proceedings yesterday, here are a series of Tweets. Note the last one.
Another day of the #Exxon trial and expert witness Dr. Bartov is still under direct examination. The Judge has been asking a lot of questions as well as the NYAG and seems fascinated on an intellectual level. #OOTT
6:37 AM · Oct 31, 2019Twitter Web App
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I, on the other hand, have no background in accounting and am having some difficulty understanding and following arguments at the moment. Might not be a popular thing to admit, but so it goes. My tweets will likely be fewer as a result.
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While the subject matter may be mind boggling, Dr. Bartov himself is a very entertaining and engaging witness.
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#Exxon now doing cross examination. They are using their most aggressive attorney on Dr. Bartov, to date the most entertaining witness. This should be fun, even if somewhat incomprehensible.
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Honestly just get Anderson (the attorney) and Bartov some boxing gloves and let them have at it.
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Bartov: Now you are trying to create confusion by playing with semantics … Let’s look at the substance. Let’s not play games with semantics and look at the substance. Just to give a sense of the tone. He’s talking to #Exxon‘s attorney here.
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Side note; Bartov is from Israel. I am assuming he is Jewish. Speaking as a Jew myself – don’t get into a semantic argument with us. It’s a bad idea. Especially when there’s a PhD involved. We’ve been practicing since we learned to talk.
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#Exxon attorney Anderson notes Bartov is making about $200k for his reports/testimony with total costs to NY taxpayers around $500k. Bartov to Judge: Can I ask him [Anderson] how much money *he’s* making? Amazing stuff. #OOTT $XOM #climatechange