United States v. Ionia Management S.A.

RULING ON DEFENDANT IONIA MANAGEMENT S.A.’S PRE-TRIAL MOTIONS [DOCS. ##15-16, 23-26]

ARTERTON, District Judge.

The Indictment in this case charges defendant Ionia Management S.A. (“Ionia”), the ship management company that operated the tanker vessel M/T Kriton, and its Second Assistant Engineer, defendant Edgardo Mercurio, with criminal violations involving the falsification of and failure to maintain an Oil Record Book for the M/T Kriton in which “all disposals of oil residue and discharges overboard and disposals otherwise of oil, oil sludge, oil residues, oily mixtures, bilge slops, and…