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U.S. v. KOSTAKIS

Docket No. 02-1647.

364 F.3d 45 (2004)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Christos KOSTAKIS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 2, 2004.

As Amended April 5, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew J. Frisch, Assistant United States Attorney (Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, David C. James, Assistant United States Attorney, and Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, Environmental & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, on the brief), Brooklyn, NY, for Appellant.

Kevin F. Clines, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, LLP (Edward J.M. Little on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: STRAUB and POOLER, Circuit Judges, HURD, District Judge.

POOLER, Circuit Judge.

Christos Kostakis, a Greek engineer working on a Bahamian-flagged and Greek-owned oil tanker, the Alkyon, falsified log entries to conceal the ship's discharge of oil-contaminated bilge water into international waters. The Coast Guard detected this practice on a routine inspection when the ship docked in New York on January 17, 2002. Kostakis later pleaded guilty to one count of making a materially false statement on a matter within the jurisdiction...

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