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Lawyer Scott Edelman said he could not confirm whether any of the workers at the Nicaragua news conference had testified for Dole in the suit. He said he is prohibited from naming any of the "John Doe" witnesses in the case because a judge has sealed their identities. But, Edelman said, "any allegation that Dole's investigators bribed or offered to bribe any witnesses is categorically false." "As the court has already found, these lawyers (for the original damage suit) have recruited fake plaintiffs and threatened and intimidated witnesses not to come forward. This is more of the same," Edelman said. "This is a calculated effort to disrupt current proceedings addressing their conspiracy and to intimidate witnesses and the court." According to Dole lawyers, the plaintiffs, a Nicaraguan judge and U.S. lawyers conspired to defraud the banana company of millions of dollars. Banana workers' leader Francisco Palacios said the statements from workers at the news conference prove that the workers who sued Dole told the truth. "Nemagon (a name for the pesticide used at the plantation) did harm us, many are sick," he said.
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