Exxon Valdez Skipper Pays Off Fine for Spill
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Thirteen years after the Exxon Valdez fouled Prince William Sound with crude oil, former tanker Capt. Joe Hazelwood has finished paying his official debt to Alaska with a $50,000 check.
In 1990, a jury convicted Hazelwood of negligent discharge of oil, a misdemeanor.
His sentence also included 1,000 hours of community service, which he completed last summer.
Hazelwood was in charge, but not at the wheel, of the Exxon tanker in March 1989 when it ran aground with a full load of crude oil.
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