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Article: COSCO BUSAN OPERATOR ADMITS GUILT IN CAUSING OIL SPILL

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August 14, 2009
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Environment & Natural Resources Division issued the following news release:

Fleet Management Ltd., a Hong Kong-based ship management firm, pleaded guilty today to a criminal violation of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 for its role in negligently causing the discharge of more than 50,000 gallons of fuel oil into San Francisco Bay from the Cosco Busan when the vessel struck the San Francisco Bay Bridge in dense fog on Nov. 7, 2007. Fleet Management also pleaded guilty today to felony obstruction of justice and false statement charges for creating false and forged documents after the crash at the direction of shore-based supervisors ...

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