Tag: U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service

Puerto Rico Man Who Paid Out $1.2 Million In Kickbacks Gets 8 Months, Home Prison

CHRISTIANSTED — Reinaldo Cruz Taura, president of Puerto Rico-based RCT Mechanical Engineering, was sentenced to eight months in prison and two years of home confinement for providing kickbacks in connection with federal government subcontracts to perform work on the federal building and courthouse in St. Croix and on U.S. Coast Guard facilities in Puerto Rico. […]

Greek Shipping Companies Trying To Skate On U.S. Environmental Laws Found Guilty Of Polluting Air Here

FREDERIKSTED — U.S. Attorney Gretchen Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that IONIAN SHIPPING & TRADING CORP., LILY SHIPPING LTD., STAMATIOS ALEKIDIS, ATHANASIOS PITTAS and REY ESPULGAR have been convicted and sentenced for various pollution, recordkeeping, and obstruction of justice crimes on the Motor Tanker (“M/T”) Ocean Princess in St. Croix. The […]