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Article: Cosco Busan pilot refusing to testify

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April 5, 2008
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The attorney for the pilot of the freighter that spilled 53,000

gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay is blaming the Coast Guard and others for the mishap and said Friday his client will refuse to testify next week at a government hearing investigating the crash.

Federal prosecutors charged Capt. John Cota last month with environmental crimes stemming from the Nov. 7 incident, when the Cosco Busan sideswiped a support tower of the Bay Bridge in heavy fog.

The crash fouled the fragile Bay with sludgelike fuel, killing or injuring thousands of birds and temporarily closing several beaches.

Cota's lawyer, Jeff Bornstein, said the Coast Guard had the responsibility to track ...

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