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The US Attorney’s Office announced the guilty pleas of 16 defendants related to a test score-fixing scheme at a United States Coast Guard exam center.

Two Fieldwood Energy LLC oil workers face criminal charges for allegedly separately allowing crude oil spills from offshore U.S. Gulf of Mexico platforms to avoid required shut downs.

The US Department of Justice charged 31 people, including three Coast Guard employees, in regards to a test-score fixing scheme at a United States Coast Guard exam center.

A crew member from MSC Ravenna container ship was arrested and charged with one count of "performing an act of violence against a person onboard a ship that is likely to endanger the safe navigation of the ship," a federal offense. 

A federal judge dismissed lawsuits by Grand Princess cruise ship passengers who sued for emotional distress caused by their fear of exposure to COVID-19.

A vessel operating company has been fined by the US Department of Justice to pay the amount of $1,750,000 and serve a 4-year term of probation for maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the discharge of bilge waste from the tank vessel Topaz Express, a felony violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.

A federal jury in Wilmington convicted a Greek ship management company, the Greek ship owner, and the Chief Engineer of violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, falsifying ship’s documents, obstructing a USCG inspection, and making false statements to USCG inspectors.

The US Department of Justice issued a statement reporting of Sea Harvest Inc., operator of "Enterprise" and "Pacific Capes" fishing vessels and the vessels' owner are sentenced to pay $1 million for discharging oily bilge water from the vessels’ engine rooms.

A federal grand jury in Oakland charged two shipping companies and a First Assistant Engineer with failing to maintain an Oil Record Book for bilge water discharges into the sea and with obstruction of justice, the US Department of Justice announced. 

The North Korean bulk carrier 'Wise Honest', which was detained for over five months in the port of Pago Pago, American Samoa, eventually departed under tow on Monday, bound for demolition, less than three months after the US revealed intentions to sell the seized vessel, following order by a federal court.