Charges at Issue for MV Cosco Busan Pilot.

The article reports on the opposition by federal prosecutors to a bid by lawyers for John Cota, the pilot of the MV Cosco Busan, to drop the criminal charges of negligence filed against him in regard to a mishap that spilled bunker fuel into San Francisco Bay, California in November 2007. The prosecutors raised their arguments in response to the petition filed by Cota's lawyers. In the new documents filed by the lawyers, they disagreed with the false statement charges against their client.