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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Giuseppe Bottiglieri Shipping Company
Current Parent Company: Giuseppe Bottiglieri Shipping
Penalty: $1,300,000
Year: 2012
Date: August 15, 2012
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: oil spill
Violation Description: A shipping company headquartered in Italy and the chief engineer of one of its ships were sentenced in federal court in Mobile, Ala., for deliberately falsifying records to conceal discharges of oily wastewater from the ship directly into the sea. Giusseppe Bottiglieri Shipping Company S.P.A, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Ginny Granade in the Southern District of Alabama to pay a $1 million criminal fine, serve four years of probation, and make a $300,000 community service payment to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
Civil or Criminal Case: criminal
HQ Country of Current Parent: Italy
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: privately held
Major Industry of Current Parent: freight and logistics
Specific Industry of Current Parent: ocean shipping
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.