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02 May 2007

Chief Engineer Pleads Guilty to Concealing Deliberate Pollution

announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew J. Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division and U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) before U.S. District Judge William M. Nickerson. Coe was employed by Pacific Gulf Marine Inc. including the Fidelio. PGM was sentenced on Jan. plan which will be audited by a court-appointed monitor. on the Fidelio that was part of the ship's original construction. black oil, according to a factual statement filed in court. the existence or use of the bypass although it had been used since 1998. according to papers filed in court. large amounts of waste oil and oil-contaminated bilge waste. International and U.S.

03 May 2007

Chief Engineer Pleads Guilty to Concealing Deliberate Pollution

The former chief engineer of an American-flagged car-carrier pleaded guilty today to criminal charges related to the deliberate discharge of oil-contaminated bilge waste through a “magic pipe” that bypassed required pollution prevention equipment, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew J. McKeown for the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. Frank Coe, the former chief engineer of the M/V Fidelio (renamed the M/V Patriot) pleaded guilty today to conspiracy and violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) before U.S. District Judge William M. Nickerson. Coe was employed by Pacific Gulf Marine Inc.