Legal Opinion
United States v. Christos Kostakis
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 5, 2004No. Docket 02-1647PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 of the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001. At Kostakis’s sentencing, the government urged the court to add a…
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