Federal Judge Orders Top Carnival Execs to Appear in Court
The Miami Herald reports that a federal judge ordered top Carnival Corporation executives, including chairman Micky Arison and president Arnold Donald, to appear in court on June 3 because the company is charged with violating its probation.
“Federal prosecutors announced last week that they had reached a deal with Carnival Corp. on the charges, which include dumping plastic into Bahamian waters and falsifying records. At the June 3 hearing, Judge Patricia Seitz will review the deal, and she wants Carnival Corp.’s C-suite to be there,” explains the Herald‘s Taylor Dolven.
The world’s largest cruise company was put on probation for its 2016 conviction for environmental crimes on its Princess Cruises ships. Carnival paid $40 million as part of its guilty plea and began its five-year probation in April 2017. It was Carnival Corp.’s third conviction for the same crime of dumping oily waste into the ocean since 1998.
